According to preliminary figures, 91,765 people died in Austria in 2022. “That is 10.7 percent more than the average of the last five years before the outbreak of the pandemic and also more than would be expected due to the aging of the population,” Tobias Thomas, Austria’s director general of statistics, reported on Thursday. . Life expectancy for women is 83.7 years and for men 79 years below the level from 2016 to 2019. However, the long-term trend is increasing.
The previous year’s statistics will be slightly higher, as there are no deaths of Austrians abroad and late civil registry registrations are to be expected, the broadcast explained. The provisional number of deaths was in any case comparable to that in 2021, when 91,962 deaths were registered.
Highest rise recorded in Vorarlberg
In Vienna, the difference from the five-year average from 2015 to 2019 was the smallest with plus 6.1 percent deaths, while Vorarlberg registered the largest deviation with plus 16.5 percent. Across Austria, life expectancy for men increased slightly by 0.2 years, while for women it remained almost constant (minus 0.03 years). In 1951 it was 67.8 years for women and 62.4 years for men, Thomas explains.
Especially many deaths after and before the turn of the year
There were many deaths, especially in the last weeks of 2022 and also in the first weeks of 2023. Compared to the five-year average of the same calendar weeks (week 52 to week 2) of the years before the start of the corona pandemic, there were 32 percent deaths in the 52nd calendar week of 2022, 29.8 percent in the first calendar week of 2023, and 29.8 percent in the second calendar week of 2023 12.6 percent more people. The sharp increase in the number of deaths coincided with the current flu wave and thousands of new corona infections are still being registered every day, Statistics Austria recently explained in response to the death figures for December 2022.
Source: Krone
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