{"id":3646,"date":"2023-12-01T03:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2023-12-04T01:36:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T06:36:43","slug":"covid-19-shrinks-life-expectancy-in-s-korea-for-first-time-since-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-shrinks-life-expectancy-in-s-korea-for-first-time-since-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 shrinks life expectancy in S.\u00a0Korea for first time since 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Babies born in South Korea last year are expected to live 82.7&nbsp;years, down from 83.6&nbsp;years in 2021, the statistics agency said on Friday, after life expectancy fell in 2022 for the first time since 1970, hit by a spike in deaths linked to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Following a global trend of such declines over the past few years, the OECD grouping said last month that average life expectancy had dipped 0.7&nbsp;years across its 39&nbsp;member nations between 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babies born in South Korea last year are expected to live 82.7&nbsp;years, down from 83.6&nbsp;years in 2021, the statistics agency said on Friday, after life expectancy fell in 2022 for the first time since 1970, hit by a spike in deaths linked to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Following a global trend of such declines over the past few years, the OECD grouping said last month that average life expectancy had dipped 0.7&nbsp;years across its 39&nbsp;member nations between 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-shrinks-life-expectancy-in-s-korea-for-first-time-since-1970\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID-19 shrinks life expectancy in S.\u00a0Korea for first time since 1970<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,150,74,14,669,230],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths","tag-life-expectancy","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-south-korea","tag-statistics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3648,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions\/3648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}