Gender and age mortality from COVID-19 in Samara region

Director General of the World Health Organization T. Gebreyesus in early May 2023, reported the end of the pandemic. In his opinion, during the three years of the pandemic, the number of deaths amounted to at least 20 million people, but according to the official data of all countries - 6.9 million people. The end of the pandemic does not mean that the infection has disappeared, it gradually passed into the category of seasonal diseases. To date, it is an urgent issue to study what damage the pandemic caused to the human population. The aim of this study is to identify the peculiarities of sex and age structure of mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Samara region. To achieve this goal, the data published daily on the Internet by the Operational Headquarters under the Government of Samara region on the number of people who fell ill and died from COVID-19 were used. The study considers the period 2020-2021. Methods of comparative and structural-dynamic analysis, statistical methods of calculating mortality rates are used. MS Excel program is used. During the period under consideration, 6272 deaths were registered in the Oblast. The sex and age structure of mortality in Samara Oblast is dominated by older adults, who account for 84.4% of all deaths, of which women account for 60%. The largest share of deaths is observed in the age group 70-79 years - 30.6%. Among older men there is a decrease in the share of total mortality with age. In all age groups of the region's population in 2021 compared to 2020, the relative mortality rate increased by more than 80%. The analysis of the sex and age structure of COVID-19 mortality of the population of Samara region shows that women make a greater contribution to the total number of deaths in the region. The highest mortality rate is observed in the age group of 70-79 years, and in the same group the highest proportion of women is 18.9%.