Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Australian life expectancy

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dc.contributor.authorVladimir Canudas-Romo
dc.contributor.authorBrian Houle
dc.contributor.authorTim Adair
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-18T09:03:35Z
dc.date.available2024-03-18T09:03:35Z
dc.date.issued2022-10-13
dc.description.abstractGlobal excess mortality caused by the COVID-19 pandemic1 can be clearly assessed from the perspective of years of life expectancy lost.2 The study by Aburto et al., on quantifying the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life expectancy losses,2 presents changes in life expectancy between 2019 and 2020 for 29 populations with high-quality data, ranging from losses of 1.7 and 2.2 years for American females and males, respectively, to small increases of 0.1 and 0.2 years for females and males in Denmark and Norway, respectively. However Australia, with its relatively strict COVID-19 containment measures of international border closures and lockdowns, resulting in just 898 COVID-19-related deaths in 2020,3 was not included in the study. Now official data are available (based on year of registration of death),3,4 and we present the results for Australia, with a comparison with Denmark and the USA which were clearly strong and poor performers, respectively, in terms of changes in life expectancy between 2019 and 2020.2 Given the relatively high number of deaths registered in 2019 in Australia that had occurred in earlier years, we used the average of 2017–19 to provide a clearer comparison of the past trend with the deaths in 2020 (sensitivity analysis on the years-comparison selection is included in the Supplementary data, available at IJE online).
dc.description.librarianPM2023
dc.facultyFaculty of Science
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/38080
dc.language.isoen
dc.schoolPublic Health
dc.titleQuantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Australian life expectancy
dc.typeArticle
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