
COVID-19: percentage of deaths by age and gender in Spain in May 2020
This statistic presents a percentage distribution by gender and age of people who died from COVID-19 in Spain as of May 18, 2020. This disease is most fatal among the elderly population, especially if the individual suffers from some type of respiratory problem. More than 80 percent of the deaths from COVID-19 registered in the country up to that moment corresponded to people over 70 years old, both in the case of men and women.