In 2021, the per capita life expectancy of residents in my country increased to 78.2 years old

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 12th. The National Health and Health Committee's "Statistics of the Development of China in my country in 2021" showed that the per capita life expectancy of residents in my country increased from 77.93 in 2020 to 78.2 years in 2021. The mortality rate dropped from 16.9/100,000 to 16.1/100,000, and the infant mortality rate dropped from 5.4 ‰ to 5.0 ‰.

The per capita life expectancy, maternal mortality and infant mortality rate are important indicators to measure the health level of a country internationally. Song Li, director of the National Health Commission's Maternal and Child Health Department, said that in 2021, the mortality rate of mothers, infants, and children under 5 years of age in my country fell to the lowest level in history.

Statistics show that in terms of total health costs, the proportion of total health expenses in 2021 accounted for 6.5%of GDP; in terms of the total number of medical and health institutions, as of the end of 2021, the total number of national medical and health institutions was 1.030935 million, of which 36.57 million were hospitalized. 9777,700 grass -roots medical institutions.

The statistical bulletin also sorted out my country's disease control and public health situation. In 2021, a total of 27.27 million cases of infectious diseases in the country A and B infectious diseases were reported and 22,000 were reported.

In terms of the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia, as of December 31, 2021, a total of 1,1937 medical and health institutions across the country provided new coronary virus nucleic acid testing services. The total detection capacity reached 41.68 million copies/day, and the detection capacity of nucleic acid was significantly improved. There are more than 800 new hospitals in the country.

The statistical bulletin also showed that in 2021, the total number of medical and health institutions across the country was 8.47 billion, an increase of 730 million people over the previous year, an increase of 9.4%, and residents had an average of 6.0 visits to medical and health institutions.

[Editor in charge: Qiu Lifang]

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