Premature mortality attributable to COVID-19: potential years of life lost in 17 countries around the world, January-August 2020

Understanding the impact of the burden of COVID-19 is key to successfully navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of a larger investigation on COVID-19 mortality impact, this study aims to estimate the Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL) in 17 countries and territories across the world (Australia,...

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Published in:	BMC public health Vol. 22; no. 1; p. 54
Main Authors:	Ugarte, Maider Pagola, Achilleos, Souzana, Quattrocchi, Annalisa, Gabel, John, Kolokotroni, Ourania, Constantinou, Constantina, Nicolaou, Nicoletta, Rodriguez-Llanes, Jose Manuel, Huang, Qian, Verstiuk, Olesia, Pidmurniak, Nataliia, Tao, Jennifer Wenjing, Burström, Bo, Klepac, Petra, Erzen, Ivan, Chong, Mario, Barron, Manuel, Hagen, Terje P, Kalmatayeva, Zhanna, Davletov, Kairat, Zucker, Inbar, Kaufman, Zalman, Kereselidze, Maia, Kandelaki, Levan, Le Meur, Nolwenn, Goldsmith, Lucy, Critchley, Julia A, Pinilla, Maria Angelica, Jaramillo, Gloria Isabel, Teixeira, Domingos, Goméz, Lara Ferrero, Lobato, Jackeline, Araújo, Carolina, Cuthbertson, Joseph, Bennett, Catherine M, Polemitis, Antonis, Charalambous, Andreas, Demetriou, Christiana A
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England BioMed Central Ltd 09-01-2022 BioMed Central BMC
Subjects:	Age groups Aged Bioinformatics Brazil Computer Science Consortia Coronaviruses COVID-19 Death Disease burden Estimates Fatalities Female Forecasts and trends Humans Investigations Life Expectancy Life Sciences Life span Male Medicin och hälsovetenskap Mortality Mortality, Premature Pandemic Pandemics Population Potential years of life lost Premature mortality Public health PYLL Santé publique et épidémiologie SARS-CoV-2 Sex Statistics United States World health Brazil United States Cyprus Colombia Cape Verde Islands United Kingdom > UK United States > US Ukraine Wales England Scotland Kazakhstan Sweden Norway Israel Georgia Slovenia Australia France Peru COVID-19 Pandemic SARS-CoV-2 PYLL Disease burden Potential years of life lost Impact Mortality
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Summary:	Understanding the impact of the burden of COVID-19 is key to successfully navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of a larger investigation on COVID-19 mortality impact, this study aims to estimate the Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL) in 17 countries and territories across the world (Australia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cyprus, France, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Peru, Norway, England & Wales, Scotland, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United States [USA]). Age- and sex-specific COVID-19 death numbers from primary national sources were collected by an international research consortium. The study period was established based on the availability of data from the inception of the pandemic to the end of August 2020. The PYLL for each country were computed using 80 years as the maximum life expectancy. As of August 2020, 442,677 (range: 18-185,083) deaths attributed to COVID-19 were recorded in 17 countries which translated to 4,210,654 (range: 112-1,554,225) PYLL. The average PYLL per death was 8.7 years, with substantial variation ranging from 2.7 years in Australia to 19.3 PYLL in Ukraine. North and South American countries as well as England & Wales, Scotland and Sweden experienced the highest PYLL per 100,000 population; whereas Australia, Slovenia and Georgia experienced the lowest. Overall, males experienced higher PYLL rate and higher PYLL per death than females. In most countries, most of the PYLL were observed for people aged over 60 or 65 years, irrespective of sex. Yet, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Israel, Peru, Scotland, Ukraine, and the USA concentrated most PYLL in younger age groups. Our results highlight the role of PYLL as a tool to understand the impact of COVID-19 on demographic groups within and across countries, guiding preventive measures to protect these groups under the ongoing pandemic. Continuous monitoring of PYLL is therefore needed to better understand the burden of COVID-19 in terms of premature mortality.
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ISSN:	1471-2458 1471-2458
DOI:	10.1186/s12889-021-12377-1