Significant but small: the modest impact of population ageing on reported COVID-19 case rates worldwide
Population ageing contributes modestly to cross-national variation in COVID-19 case rates. Broader structural factors and the Henneberg Index play a substantially larger role, underscoring the importance of public health strategies that strengthen surveillance capacity and interpretation of pandemic data at the global level.
Authors
- Rita Chang
- Wenpeng You (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6229-1064)
- Luísa Rodrigues Garcia
- Frank Donnelly
Institutions
- Murdoch University (AU)
- Institute for Biomedicine (IT)
- Western Sydney University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Future Science OA
- Published
- 2026-02-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/20565623.2026.2634606
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00