Table 1.

Data and data sources for the Turkey analysis.

VariableDataData sources
Discount rate (r)3%, 5%, 10%Kirigia and Muthuri15, 16 , Kirigia Muthuri and Muthuri17 .
Mean life expectancy at birth (LEB) D2)Turkey LEB = 78.45 years21 ; global LEB = 72 years; Japanese Females LEB (world’s highest) = 87.1 years.Worldometer database21  and WHO world health statistics report 2020.
Mean age of onset of death in kth age group D3)0–9 years = (0+9)/2=4.5 years; 10–19 years = 14.5 years; 20–29 years = 24.5 years; 30–39 years = 34.5 years ; 40–49 years = 44.5 years; 50–59 years =54.5 years; 60–69 years = 64.5 years; 70–79 years = 74.5 years; 80 years and above = 80 years.Authors estimates from age groups in Verity et al.25 .
GDP per capita for Turkey D4)Int$ 29,326.503International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Economic Outlook Database.
Current health expenditure per person in Turkey D5)Int$ 1,181WHO Global Health Expenditure Database26 .
Total number of COVID- 19 deaths in Turkey as of 15 June 2020 D6)4,807Worldometer database.
Proportion of COVID-19 deaths per age group in Turkey0–9 years= 0; 10–19 years = 0.000977517; 20–29 years = 0.00684262; 30–39 = 0.017595308; 40–49 years = 0.03714565; 50–59 years = 0.127077224; 60–69 years = 0.302052786; 70–79 years = 0.304985337; and 80 and older = 0.203323558.Turkey’s COVID-19 deaths are no disaggregated by age. Thus, we used age break-down from Verity et al.25 .

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