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The result of combining the use of age weights and discounting future health benefits is shown in this figure.

As we see, the effects of age-weighting and discounting are additive.

In fact, if a 5 years old child dies, the resulting DALY score is lower than if a child of 10 year dies! Similarly, if a person dies when he is 24 or if he dies when he is new born, yields the same number of DALYs.