Figure 11.

Age demographics of COVID-19 deaths during the sanitary emergency to compare Mexico with other countries. (a) Proportion of COVID-19 deaths per age group and wave in Mexico; (b) proportion of deaths by age group and pandemic year comparing Mexico, the USA (with data from the CDC [34]) and the UK (as found in OECD stats [35]). Numbers inside the bar sections correspond to percentage of COVID-19 deaths at that age, from the total in the wave or year. The age partitions reported by the USA CDC were used for Mexico and the USA, with the same color code in a and b; while for the UK only three categories are reported in OECD stats: COVID-19 deaths at 0–44 yo (depicted in orange) which stayed below 2% in all the pandemic years, those at 45–64 yo depicted in light blue and staying below 13.4%, and the largest section of the bar corresponding to COVID-19 deaths in elders 65+ (depicted in dark blue) Other OECD (Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation) countries and most of the countries in Figure 10 stopped reporting COVID-19 deaths by age, thus the comparison was limited to these three countries. For 2023 only data until May are included. (c) TOP: crude mortality rate (MR) per 100,000 inhabitants (displayed in logarithmic scale base 10) by age group and year and cumulative, in Mexico and the USA. Only whole years were included in MR calculations; BOTTOM: proportion of each population group in Mexico, the USA and the UK to compare the population pyramids, with data from 2021 available at [5].