Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy at birth in Asia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy at birth (e₀) for 51 Asian countries and territories from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021.

Method

Based on age-sex-specific mortality used for estimating the changes in e₀ for years 2019, 2020, and 2021 from the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects, we employed Arriaga's discrete method to decompose changes in e₀ into both absolute and relative contributions of changes in age-specific death rate, and further obtained the age-sex-specific contribution to changes in e₀ by country/territory and period (i.e., 2019-2020 and 2020-2021) for Asia.

Findings

The COVID-19 pandemic reduced 1.66 years in e₀ of the Asian population f

SUBMITTER: Mo Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10410782 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature