Years of life lost to COVID-19 in 81 countries

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 81 countries due to COVID-19 attributable deaths, and also conduct an analysis based on estimated excess deaths. We fi...

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Auteurs principaux:	Héctor Pifarré i Arolas, Enrique Acosta, Guillem López-Casasnovas, Adeline Lo, Catia Nicodemo, Tim Riffe, Mikko Myrskylä
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Publié:	Nature Portfolio 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a04591f057d0487fbc703f19f80c84f92021-12-02T14:21:58ZYears of life lost to COVID-19 in 81 countries10.1038/s41598-021-83040-32045-2322https://doaj.org/article/a04591f057d0487fbc703f19f80c84f92021-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83040-3https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract 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.Héctor Pifarré i ArolasEnrique AcostaGuillem López-CasasnovasAdeline LoCatia NicodemoTim RiffeMikko MyrskyläNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Héctor Pifarré i Arolas Enrique Acosta Guillem López-Casasnovas Adeline Lo Catia Nicodemo Tim Riffe Mikko Myrskylä Years of life lost to COVID-19 in 81 countries
description	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 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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Years of life lost to COVID-19 in 81 countries

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