Talk:Years of potential life lost

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It would be great to add some statistics of YPLL by sex and country. The stats for 2000 are available from the OECD in spreadsheet form. Is there a more recent source somewhere?

Ezra Klein writes about YPLL a bit in comparing different health care systems in his Health of Nation series. Is the use of this statistic an important part of health care debates, are is that specific to him? What are the pros and cons of YPLL versus alternative measures of healthcare outcomes? Crust 15:04, 22 June 2007 (UTC)


 * More recent data by sex and country may be found from the spreadsheet you can download here (see the PYLL tabs). Depending on the country, the data is current through up to 2006. I think it would be nice to add a table of such data by country and gender.  An update is due to be released on June 30, 2009.  Crust (talk) 22:25, 23 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I added a table comparing recent data across countries. It might be nice to also add graphs showing how the numbers ave changed over time for individual countries (the data go back to 1960). Crust (talk) 23:44, 9 August 2009 (UTC)


 * It would be good to make clear what the reference age used was for the table. As the article notes, the reference age should always be included in reporting PYLL. In particular, if the reference ages used for the different countries are different, then the table is highly misleading. Hopefully that's not the case. -- Spireguy (talk) 21:00, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

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Years of Life Lost vs. Years of Potential Life Lost
On the "See Also" there is "Life-years lost (duplicata?)" indicating that they might be considered the same thing. If the description here is accurate, they are different.

From the description here, YPLL is Life Expectancy - Age at Death (if Age at Death <= Life Expectancy), with everyone assigned the same number for Life Expectancy.

From the paper referenced in Life-years lost, Life-years lost (LYL) is Life Expectancy at Age of Death - Age of Death, That is, the life expectancy is the actuarial life expectancy for a person that died at that age. Assuming a life expectance of 76 for everyone regardless of age, since the average 70 year-old is expected to live another 14 years, the Life-years lost is 14 years instead of six years.--Jeff (talk) 00:52, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * right. If somebody is 10 y.o. he is exptected to get 76 y.o. But if somebody is 70 y.o., the expected age is 80. --2003:E5:270F:6700:1D27:8C71:ECFC:35B6 (talk) 17:45, 9 November 2021 (UTC)