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Article History

Received: 24 November 2022

Accepted: 9 August 2023

First Online: 28 August 2023

Declarations

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: All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.The study does not contain any individual, clinical or experimental protocol, hence informed consent is not applicable to this study. The data comes from either publicly available files from Eurostat (Statistics | Eurostat (europa.eu)) or from national contact points who compiled administrative registers and granted permission to the authors to use these compiled data. The list of national contact points is the following: Bindi Kindermann (Australia); Johannes Klotz (Austria); Julie Bernier (Canada); Dorthe Larsen (Denmark); Andras Weber (Hungary); Saverio Gazzelloni (Italy); Megumi Kasajima (Japan); Jaeyong An (Korea); Audrone Miskiniene (Lithunia); Jan-Willem Bruggink (Netherlands); June Atkinson (New Zealand); Małgorzata Gniewaszewska (Poland); Neonila Foltánová (Slovakia); Orjan Hemstrom (Sweden); Ece Cengiz Küçük (Turkey); Antonio Argueso Jimenez (Spain); Elizabeth Arias and Minino Arialdi (United States).

: Not applicable. No individual, clinical or experimental data was collected for this study.

: All authors certify that they have no affiliation with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest or non-financial interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript. The authors have no financial or proprietary interests in any material discussed in this article.