Comparing the loss of life expectancy at birth during the 2020 and 1918 pandemics in six European countries

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Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
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Titre
Comparing the loss of life expectancy at birth during the 2020 and 1918 pandemics in six European countries
Périodique
Vienna Yearbook of Population Research
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Rousson Valentin, Paccaud Fred, Locatelli Isabella
ISSN
1728-4414
1728-5305
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2022
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
20
Langue
anglais
Résumé
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.
Mots-clé
all-cause mortality, COVID-19, Europe, life expectancy decomposition, period life expectancy, Spanish flu
Open Access
Oui
Création de la notice
27/09/2022 12:19
Dernière modification de la notice
28/02/2023 7:51
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