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Table 2 Estimated loss in life expectancy in 2020 due to excess mortality in selected Latin American countries

From: Investigating regional excess mortality during 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in selected Latin American countries

Country

Assumed overall life expectancy at birth in 2020 without the occurrence of the pandemica

Loss in life expectancy at birth in 2020 due to excess mortality

Corresponding year to new life expectancy at birth after discounting excess mortality of 2020

Brazil

75.56

2.42

2009

Chile

79.96

1.94

2007

Ecuador

76.70

7.91

1990

Guatemala

73.94

2.26

2011

Mexico

74.98

5.54

1987

Peru

76.37

10.91

1989

  1. Sources: Ministry of Health, Brazil, Chile, and Peru, 2021; National Civil Registry Ecuador (Gobierno de la República del Ecuador, 2021); National Registry of Persons Guatemala (RENAP, 2021); and Secretariat of Health, Mexico (DGE-SS, 2021). United Nations, World Population Prospects 2019, https://population.un.org/wpp
  2. aConsidering in 2020 the same mortality levels as estimated for the year 2018 by World Population Prospects