DALYs From Deaths and Prevalent Cases (YLL + YLD)
DALYs for one cause: the years of life lost to death plus the years lived with disability, in the simplified form WHO uses (Global Health Estimates technical paper GHE/2026.3) with no time discounting and no age weights.
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Example
- Deaths from this cause
- 100
- Age range the deaths fall in
- 50 to 54 years
- People living with this cause
- 2000
- Disability weight for the condition
- 0.133
Result: 4,327 DALYs: 4,061 years of life lost plus 266 years lived with disability.
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What you enter
- Deaths from this cause
- Age range the deaths fall in
- People living with this cause (prevalent cases)
- Disability weight for the condition (0-1)
How this is calculated
Citation
WHO. Global Health Estimates Technical Paper GHE/2026.3, September 2026, sections 2 to 2.3 and Table 2.1: DALY = YLL + YLD, with years lost from WHO's standard loss function by age at death and disability years as prevalence times the disability weight, no discounting and no age weights. Read the source ↗
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