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Excess Mortality

I recently did a Twitter thread about ‘excess mortality’ and why it’s a very useful quanitity to observe to better understand the impact of COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2. You can read that thread here. In short, ‘excess mortality’ means: How many more people died this year than died on average over the last few years?

This means we gather data on all deaths above what we expect - even if their official cause of death was not COVID-19.

I reached out to people on Twitter to try and gather links to country’s data on excess mortality, if available. Here’s what I managed to gather!

Netherlands

• Report from 17 April here
• Report from 10 April here. Link to datatable present.
• Anothe report - does update - available here
• Mortality data available here

Switzerland

• Updated data available here. Raw data available in middle of page.
• 2020 data is available here (see bottom of page) and historical data available here

Spain

• Updated reports from Spain available here Click on the latest date. These are PDF - unsure if raw data availble somewhere.
• Dataset available here

Italy

• Updated graph available here
• Updated PDF available here. Not clear if raw data available.
• This site may have raw data on deaths available, until 28 Mar (at posting)

Portugal

• No graph, but raw data available here

Sweden

• No graph, but raw data available from link at bottom of page here

UK

• Updated, interactive app here with links to data download.
• Static page for 3rd April available here. Raw data should be available to download.

France

• Static page for 30 March available here. Unsure if raw data is available.
• Raw data available from links at bottom of page here

Belgium

• PDF of mortality data from 16 Apr available here. Look for table under heading 2.8.1, on page 15. Observed deaths = ‘waargenomen sterfgevallen’, Expected deaths = “verwachte sterfgevallen”. (Thanks to @thomasroelens )
• Interactive mortality graph, through Mar 2020 here - updated with a lag of about 4 weeks

Larger Regions

All Europe

• Graphs available here, but unclear if raw data available.

USA

• For all 50 states here. At time of posting, this was only through 22 March. Has link to CDC data.