The new coronavirus (COVID-19) is having a major impact on mortality and survival in most countries of the world, with Mexico being one of the countries most heavily impacted by the pandemic. In this paper, we study the impact of COVID-19 deaths on period life expectancy at birth in Mexico by sex and state. We focus on the loss of life expectancy at different ages as a geographically comparable measure of the pandemic’s impact on the population in 2020. Results show that males have been affected more than women since they have lost more years of life expectancy at birth due to COVID-19, and they have also experienced a high variation of life expectancy loss across states. The biggest life expectancy loss concentrates in the Northeastern, Central, and Southeastern (Yucatan peninsula) states. Considering the likely undercount associated with COVID-19 deaths, sensitivity analysis suggests that the new coronavirus is having a much larger impact on life expectancy in Mexico than the official government data appears to indicate. Continuos assessment of the pandemic will help state governments quantify the effect of current and new public health measures.

新型冠状病毒（COVID-19）对世界大多数国家的死亡率和生存产生重大影响，墨西哥是受该流行病影响最严重的国家之一。在本文中，我们按性别和州研究了墨西哥 COVID-19 死亡对出生时预期寿命的影响。我们重点关注不同年龄段的预期寿命损失，以此作为衡量大流行对 2020 年人口影响的地理可比指标。结果显示，男性比女性受到的影响更大，因为他们在出生时因新冠病毒而损失了更多的预期寿命-19，而且各州的预期寿命损失也存在很大差异。预期寿命损失最大的地区集中在东北部、中部和东南部（尤卡坦半岛）各州。考虑到与 COVID-19 死亡相关的可能漏报，敏感性分析表明，新型冠状病毒对墨西哥预期寿命的影响比官方政府数据显示的要大得多。对疫情的持续评估将有助于州政府量化当前和新的公共卫生措施的效果。