This age-weighting system means that somebody disabled at 30 years of age, for ten years, would be measured as having a higher loss of DALYs (a greater burden of disease), than somebody disabled by the same disease or injury at the age of 70 for ten years.
Običajno se leta življenja kot mlada odrasla oseba vrednotijo višje kot leta, preživeta kot otrok ali starejša odrasla oseba, saj gre pri tem za tela z maksimalno produktivnostjo.