• Felipe J Uribe-Salas, Gerardo Núñez-Medina, and Juan Parra-Ávila.
• Department of Population Studies.
• Gac Med Mex. 2023 Jan 1; 159 (5): 387397387-397.

BackgroundLife expectancy (LE) is an indicator related to medical, demographic, social and geographic conditions.ObjectivesTo analyze the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on LE and of its distribution according to sociodemographic variables in municipalities of Mexico.MethodsInformation on mortality was collected from data published by the Ministry of Health, and demographic information, from the 2020 Population and Housing Census. LE was calculated according to the standard actuarial method. A risk analysis was carried out between expected years of life lost and the size of the economically active population, years of education and indigenous-speaking population.ResultsIn 2020, there was a nation-wide average drop of 4.7 years in LE, but its distribution was heterogeneous at the municipal level, with extreme values of -2.8 years and 12.6 years. The risk analysis showed an inverse relationship between sociodemographic variables and expected years of life lost, except for the indigenous-speaking population.ConclusionsThe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on LE in Mexico was significant and was influenced by the analyzed sociodemographic variables, particularly by the municipalities' population size.Copyright: © 2023 Permanyer.

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