ArticleInternational journal of epidemiology2023
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy in Australia, 2020-22.
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- Trends and geographic differences in life expectancy in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multiple cause of death analysis.Population health metrics · 2026Article
- Slowdown in mortality improvements and trends in lifespan inequality across high-income countries: the role of changing causes of death, 2010-2021.European journal of public health · 2026Article
- Inequities in mortality and potential years of life lost (PYLL) in greater Santiago, Chile, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- Restoring life expectancy in low-income countries: the combined impact of COVID-19, health expenditure, GDP, and child mortality.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: A cause-of-death analysis of life expectancy changes in 24 countries, 2015 to 2022.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Faltering mortality improvements at young-middle ages in high-income English-speaking countries.International journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Spatial disparities in the mortality burden of the covid-19 pandemic across 569 European regions (2020-2021).Nature communications · 2024Article
- No Excess Total Mortality in Italy in the First Semester of 2023 at All Ages and in the Working Age Population.La Medicina del lavoro · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundAustralia provides a valuable international case study of life expectancy during the pandemic. In contrast to many other countries, it experienced relatively stringent restrictions and low COVID-19 mortality during 2020-21, followed by relaxation of these restrictions when high vaccination rates were achieved. This study measures Australia's life expectancy trends and the contributions of age group and causes of death, during the pandemic.
methodsTrends in life expectancy at birth in Australia and its states and territories were measured from 2020 to 2022. The contributions of age group and cause of death to these trends were measured using decomposition methods. Life expectancy was compared with other high-income countries.
resultsAustralia's life expectancy fell by more than half a year in 2022, following a sharp increase in 2020 and moderate decline in 2021. For the 3 years 2020 to 2022, life expectancy was 0.13 years (95% confidence interval 0.07-0.19) higher for males and 0.09 years (0.03-0.14) higher for females versus 2017-19. Australia's life expectancy increase in 2020 was larger than that in the vast majority of other high-income countries, but its decline in 2022 was greater than in other countries whose life expectancy rose in the first year of the pandemic. The small negative contribution of COVID-19 deaths to life expectancy in Australia was more than offset by lower non-communicable disease mortality. There were only small differences in life expectancy change between the states with the most stringent restrictions (Victoria and New South Wales) and the rest of Australia.
conclusionsAustralia's life expectancy trends during 2020-22 were relatively favourable compared with other high-income countries, with the exception of its sharp decline in 2022 once restrictions were loosened.
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