Rosa, Maria João Valente2021-07-222021-07-2220212327-5146PURE: 32740615PURE UUID: 3b8eee95-502c-4102-8f63-6ff07a39b7a2ORCID: /0000-0002-9034-0943/work/97375382ORCID: /0000-0002-5665-0358/work/167368670http://hdl.handle.net/10362/121493UIDB/04627/2020 UIDP/04627/2020A progressively ageing population was the landscape that the Covid-19 epidemic encountered when it struck the world in 2020. Given the relationship between COVID-19 and age, it would be logical to deduce that demographic ageing is a sufficient predictor of the impact of this virus on populations. Focusing on European Countries – territory with an exceptionally high population ageing level and where the fatal incidence of the virus has been particularly significant – we conclude that demographic ageing is not a predictor of the impact of this virus on populations. The correlation coefficients, for 2020, between the percentages of people aged 65 or more and the COVID-19 mortality rates per 1 million inhabitants or between the “variation life expectancy at age 65, 2020-2019” and the “percentage of people aged 65 or more” were very weak. Individual age matters for the mortality rate of Covid-19, but population age (inside EU 2020) does not.2233330engMortalityAgeingCOVID-19PopulationSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingjournal articlehttps://www.longdom.org/open-access/covid19-does-ageing-matter.pdf