Table 1 Age-group specific estimates \(\widehat {\text {IFR}}_{a}^{(i)}\) as well as population-averaged estimates \(\overline {\text {IFR}}_{\text {DE}}^{(i)}\) for Germany under age-independent infection risk, based on studies i∈{O’Driscoll[5],Verity[11],Perez-Saez[12],Levin[6]}

0-4

0.002 [0.001; 0.002]

0.002 [0.000; 0.025]

0.002 [0.000; 0.019]

0.001 [0.001; 0.001]

5-14

0.000 [0.000; 0.000]

0.004 [0.001; 0.037]

0.001 [0.000; 0.011]

0.002 [0.001; 0.003]

15-34

0.009 [0.007; 0.010]

0.041 [0.019; 0.110]

0.007 [0.003; 0.013]

0.016 [0.014; 0.020]

35-59

0.122 [0.115; 0.128]

0.349 [0.194; 0.743]

0.070 [0.047; 0.097]

0.226 [0.212; 0.276]

60-79

0.992 [0.942; 1.045]

2.913 [1.670; 5.793]

3.892 [2.985; 5.145]

2.491 [2.294; 3.266]

80+

7.274 [6.909; 7.656]

7.800 [3.800; 13.30]

5.600 [4.300; 7.400]

15.61 [12.20; 19.50]

\(\overline {\text {IFR}}_{\text {DE}}^{(i)}\)

0.756 [0.717; 0.796]

1.296 [0.694; 2.453]

1.254 [0.959; 1.661]

1.687 [1.407; 2.139]