Excess mortality during the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) – Statistics and Research – Our World in Data
On this page we provide an overview of excess mortality along with charts to explore the data. You can learn in more depth about different measures of excess mortality, their strengths and limitations, and their comparability across countries in our work with John Muellbauer and Janine Aron.
In a world of misinformation, some sites provide helpful ways of looking at data. Our World in Data is a valuable resource. In particular, the “excess deaths” numbers (calculated in different ways, carefully explained in the article) provide a reasonable way to look at the pandemic and its impact on our world. Some countries experienced much more infection than others, comparing these results help to get some perspective on what is happening worldwide. — dcsj
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