Changing impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy 2019-2023 and its decomposition: Findings from 27 countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 no longer a global health emergency on 5^th May 2023; however, the impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy throughout the pandemic period is not clear. This study aimed to quantify and decompose the changes in life expectancy during 2019-2023 and corresponding age and gender disparities in 27 countries.

Methods

Data were sourced from the Human Mortality Database, the World Population Prospects 2022 and the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics. Life expectancy was estimated using the abridged life table method, while differentials of life expectancies were decomposed using the age-decomposition algorithm.

Results

There was an overall reduction in life expectancy at age 5 among the 27 countrie

SUBMITTER: Huang G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10746558 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature