Estimated Life Expectancy Impact of Sars-Cov-2 Infection on the Entire German Population

The life expectancy of the currently living German population is calculated per age and as weighted average. The same calculation is repeated after considering everyone infected with and potentially killed by SARS-CoV-2 within one year, given the current age-dependent lethality estimates from a study at London Imperial College [1]. For an average life expectancy of 83.0 years in the current population, the reduction due to SARS-CoV-2 infection amounts to 2.0 (1.1-3.9) months. The individual values show a maximum of 7.7 (4.4-15.2) months for a 70-year-old. People below age 50 loose less than 1 month in average.