AUTHOR=Muniyandi Malaisamy , Singh Pravin Kumar , Aanandh Yamini , Karikalan Nagarajan , Padmapriyadarsini Chandrasekaran 

TITLE=A national-level analysis of life expectancy associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in India

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1000933

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2022.1000933

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=IMPORTANCE: From the demographic perspective, the impact of the virus in terms of life expectancy is not clear-cut. There is a need to study the number of years lost concerning the existing average life expectancy due to COVID-19.    
 
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the impact of life expectancy due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India. 

DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: A total reported of 399459 deaths due to COVID-19 from June 31st 2020 to June 30th 2021 in India was used for this study. We collected day wise age-specific mortality due to COVID-19 for India from the COVID-19 data repository. General mortality for India was collected from the United Nations population estimates. The abridged life table technique was used for calculating life expectancies based on all-cause mortality and COVID-19 related mortality. MortPak software was used to calculate life expectancy. The life expectancy has been compared with and without the COVID-19 pandemic.   

MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Life expectancy at birth and in different age groups was estimated for with and without COVID-19 mortality. The impact of life expectancy due to COVID-19 was estimated.

RESULTS: A total of 399459 deaths due to COVID-19 were distributed age-wise and their corresponding life expectancy were calculated. Mortality due to COVID-19 was higher among the age group 40 to 65 years. It suggests that COVID-19 will have an impact on 2020-2021 life expectancy by 0.12 years.    

CONCLUSION AND RELEVANCE: The COVID-19 pandemic in India will break the increasing trend of life expectancy and which in turn results in declining of life expectancy in the subsequent periods