Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2022 Demographic aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences
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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2022 Demographic aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences
ISSN 1728-4414
Print Edition ISSN 1728-5305 Online Edition ISBN 978-3-7001-8882-7 Print Edition ISBN 978-3-7001-9003-5 Online Edition Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2022
2022, ONLINE FIRST 554 Seiten, License: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License: CC BY 4.0 24x17cm, broschiert
Valentin Rousson,
Fred Paccaud,
Isabella Locatelli
S. 527 - 542 Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften doi:10.1553/populationyearbook2022.dat.7
Abstract: Supplementary File Supplementary material The COVID-19 pandemic that reached Europe in 2020 has often been compared to the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. In this article, we compare the two pandemics in terms of their respective impacts on the loss of life expectancy at birth in six European countries (France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland) by estimating life expectancy in 2020 using Eurostat data. We found that the loss of life expectancy at birth was up to 20 times larger between 1917 and 1918 than between 2019 and 2020. A decomposition of these losses clearly shows that in all six countries, the main contributors were older age groups in 2020 and younger age groups in 1918. These observations are consistent with evidence indicating that most COVID-19 fatalities were among the elderly, while a majority of Spanish flu fatalities were among the young. Keywords: all-cause mortality; COVID-19; Europe; life expectancy decomposition; period life expectancy; Spanish flu Published Online: 2022/08/18 08:31:05 Object Identifier: 0xc1aa5576 0x003da265 Rights:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
A-1011 Wien, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2
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