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Global years of life lost to COVID-19

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  • Arolas, Héctor Pifarré i
  • Acosta, Enrique

    (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)

  • Casasnovas, Guillem López
  • Lo, Adeline
  • Nicodemo, Catia
  • Riffe, Tim
  • Myrskylä, Mikko

Abstract

Understanding the mortality impact of COVID-19 requires not only counting the dead, but analyzing how premature the deaths are. We calculate years of life lost (YLL) across 42 countries due to COVID-19 attributable deaths, and also conduct an analysis based on estimated excess deaths. As of June 13th 2020, YLL in heavily affected countries are 2 to 6 times the average seasonal influenza; over two thirds of the YLL result from deaths in ages below 75 and one quarter from deaths below 55; and men have lost 47% more life years than women. The results confirm the large mortality impact of COVID-19 among the elderly. They also call for heightened awareness in devising policies that protect vulnerable demographics losing the largest number of life-years.

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  • Arolas, Héctor Pifarré i & Acosta, Enrique & Casasnovas, Guillem López & Lo, Adeline & Nicodemo, Catia & Riffe, Tim & Myrskylä, Mikko, 2020. "Global years of life lost to COVID-19," SocArXiv gveaj_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:gveaj_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/gveaj_v1
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