Decomposing life expectancy changes in Spain in the COVID-19 pandemic and post-pandemic periods.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 pandemic produced an important decrease in life expectancy at birth (LE) in 2020 in Western European countries, which has only been recovered in 2023. Spain has the highest LE in the European Union in spite of being one of the European countries more affected by the pandemic. The main goal in this study is to decompose the LE changes in Spain over the 2019-2023 period into age-specific and cause-of-death-specific contributions, and to compare them with those occurred in the pre-pandemic period 2010-2019.

Methods

Data on LE and mortality rates by age and for each main group of causes was obtained from the Spanish National Institute for Statistics (INE) for years 2010, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. We estimated age-specific contribution to changes in LE

SUBMITTER: Llorca J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12581578 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature