Table 1.
Number of deaths in the first six months of the 2020 in Italy and in the Lombardy region, and comparison with the number of deaths registered in the previous quinquennium*
| Month | 2020 | Average 2015-19 | Absolute difference (2020 - average 2015-19) | Percent difference (2020 - average 2015-19) |
| Italy | ||||
| January | 58,650 | 64,644 | -5994 | -9.3 |
| February | 51,290† | 53,995† | -2705 | -5.0 |
| March | 82,867 | 55,065 | 27,802 | 50.5 |
| April | 67,805 | 49,144 | 18,661 | 38.0 |
| May | 48,326 | 48,181 | 145 | 0.3 |
| June | 43,247 | 46,090 | -2843 | -6.2 |
| All six months | 352,185 | 317,119 | 35,066 | 11.1 |
| Lombardy region | ||||
| January | 9275 | 10,448 | -1173 | -11.2 |
| February | 8460† | 8662† | -202 | -2.3 |
| March | 25227 | 8660 | 16,567 | 191.3 |
| April | 16690 | 7821 | 8869 | 113.4 |
| May | 8558 | 7742 | 816 | 10.5 |
| June | 7293 | 7434 | -141 | -1.9 |
| All six months | 75,503 | 50,767 | 24,736 | 48.7 |
* The number of total deaths were obtained from the integration of the Population Registers and Tax Registers and were available for 7357 Italian municipalities and 1469 municipalities of the Lombardy region.
† To compare the same number of days in each month of the year, the number of deaths registered on 29th February 2016 and 2020 (leap years) were dropped.