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   Latvia: 12.3% more deaths a year in 2020–2022 than the 2015–2019 trend predicted

   Deaths above the extended 2015–2019 trend (Human Mortality Database, Macroscope's calculation): 2020 +2.8%, 2021 +23.7%, 2022 +10.5%. Men's life expectancy (UN estimate): 70.9 years in 2019, 68.3 years in 2021. The UN's 2019 revision expected 70.8 years for 2020–2025; the estimate for the years so far is 70.1 years.

   Source: Human Mortality Database (excess deaths: Macroscope's calculation); UN WPPOpen on the chart →

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• Latvia: the poorest report bad health 6.3 times as often as the richest
• Latvia’s National Alliance in 2018: more citizens will return than leave. In 2022, 3,243 more left than arrived
• Latvia in 2012 planned 28,000 births a year by 2020. There were 17,552, fewer than in 2011
• Resettling refugees under the 2015 European deal: 2 countries of 12 took all they pledged
• Goals to raise fertility: 1 of 7 came true. Lithuania expected 1.76 children per woman by 2023 and got 1.18
• Latvia: in April 2008 the European Commission expected growth of +2.5% for 2009. The outcome: −16.0%

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