The monetary value of human lives lost through Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2019

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Table 2 Monetary value of years of life lost from Ebola Virus Disease in DRC discounted at 5% (2019 Int$ or PPP)

Age Group	MVYLL assuming DRC life expectancy 60.5 years & 5% discount rate¹	MVYLL assuming global average life expectancy of 72 years & 5% discount rate²	MVYLL assuming japan female life expectancy of 87 years & 5% discount rate³
1–4	4,002,823	4,189,491	4,325,872
5–9	1,701,881	1,781,246	1,839,231
10–14	857,748	897,748	926,973
15–19	601,833	634,909	659,074
20–24	489,635	525,282	551,326
25–29	429,139	471,042	501,657
30–34	401,263	454,744	493,818
35–39	4,043,451	4,798,172	5,349,580
40–44	347,734	442,315	511,417
45–49	299,806	426,872	519,708
50–54	226,043	396,323	520,732
55–59	107,398	314,375	465,595
60–64	0	204,639	373,513
65–69	0	85,234	245,343
70–74	0	0	149,328
75–79	0	0	76,009
80–84	0	0	22,948
85–89	0	0	0
90–94	0	0	0
95+	0	0	0
TOTAL	13,508,754	15,622,391	17,532,122

¹DRC life expectancy 60.5 years and 5% discount rate; ²Global average life expectancy of 72 years and 5% discount rate; ³Japan female life expectancy of 87 years and 5% discount rate; minimum working age in DRC is 15 years, and thus, PYLL below 14 years were value at zero

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