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Potential years of life lost

<b>Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL)</b> is a summary measure of premature mortality which provides an explicit way of weighting deaths occurring at younger ages, which are, a priori, preventable. The calculation of PYLL involves summing up deaths occurring at each age and multiplying this with the number of remaining years to live up to a selected age limit. The <b>limit of 75 years</b> has been chosen for the calculations in OECD Health Statistics.

<p />The selected <b>ICD categories</b> presented in the OECD Health Statistics database are detailed in an Excel file <a href="https://stats.oecd.org/wbos/fileview2.aspx?IDFile=9506bbe9-c549-4951-8410-757676477e2c" target="_blank">available for download</a>, with codes according to the <b>Tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) along with codes from other ICD revisions used in the WHO Mortality Database.</b>

<p />Please refer to the <a target="_blank" href="https://stats.oecd.org/wbos/fileview2.aspx?IDFile=c2b922b3-19f8-4454-b74f-5184c034c6f8">Sources and Methods</a> for detailed country-specific information.