Years of life lost to COVID-19 in 81 countries
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 81 countries due to COVID-19 attributable deaths, and also conduct an analysis based on estimated excess deaths. We find that o...
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2021
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| author | Pifarré I Arolas, H Acosta, E López-Casasnovas, G Lo, A Nicodemo, C Riffe, T Myrskylä, M |
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| description | 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 81 countries due to COVID-19 attributable deaths, and also conduct an analysis based on estimated excess deaths. We find that over 20.5 million years of life have been lost to COVID-19 globally. As of January 6, 2021, YLL in heavily affected countries are 2-9 times the average seasonal influenza; three quarters of the YLL result from deaths in ages below 75 and almost a third from deaths below 55; and men have lost 45% 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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| spelling | oxford-uuid:a5e69207-ead1-4b61-b7c2-67150f67f28f2022-08-02T11:42:36ZYears of life lost to COVID-19 in 81 countriesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:a5e69207-ead1-4b61-b7c2-67150f67f28fEnglishSymplectic ElementsNature Research2021Pifarré I Arolas, HAcosta, ELópez-Casasnovas, GLo, ANicodemo, CRiffe, TMyrskylä, MUnderstanding 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 81 countries due to COVID-19 attributable deaths, and also conduct an analysis based on estimated excess deaths. We find that over 20.5 million years of life have been lost to COVID-19 globally. As of January 6, 2021, YLL in heavily affected countries are 2-9 times the average seasonal influenza; three quarters of the YLL result from deaths in ages below 75 and almost a third from deaths below 55; and men have lost 45% 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. |
| spellingShingle | Pifarré I Arolas, H Acosta, E López-Casasnovas, G Lo, A Nicodemo, C Riffe, T Myrskylä, M Years of life lost to COVID-19 in 81 countries |
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