BERLIN, May 22 (Xinhua) -- Life expectancy in Germany is shorter than in other Western European countries, according to a study published by the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research on Wednesday.
The study, which analyzed mortality trends over several decades, found that while life expectancy in Germany was only 0.7 year below the Western European average in 2000, but this gap had widened to 1.7 years by 2022. By that year, life expectancy in Germany had reached 80.55 years.
