According to the study carried out by the Association of Rural Mayors of France, a child born in a rural area will have a shorter life expectancy than if he had been born in the city. In this study, the association also notes an average excess mortality of more than 14,000 deaths each year in the countryside.
For Michel Fournier, president of the AMRF, this is mainly due to the difficulty of accessing care. "There may be a city doctor, but there is no country medicine," he told Europe 1.