Widening East-West inequality in life expectancy in Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international comparative study

• Vladimir M. Shkolnikov,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Demographic Data, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, International Laboratory for Population and Health, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

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• Sergey Timonin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sergey.timonin@anu.edu.au

  Affiliations School of Demography, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6651-2023

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• Dmitri Jdanov,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Demographic Data, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

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• Naomi Medina-Jaudes,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Noncommunicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Nazrul Islam,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Primary Care Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

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• David A. Leon

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Noncommunicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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