Table 1.

Estimates of annual excess deaths from COVID-19 in the United States, 12-mo periods ending on December 31, 2020, and March 31, 2021

	12-mo period ending
	December 31, 2020 (1)	March 31, 2021 (2)
Country
National COVID-19 ratio
France	0.69	0.65
Germany	0.28	0.39
Italy	0.76	0.64
Spain	0.77	0.64
United Kingdom	0.91	0.96
Five-country average	0.65	0.64
US COVID-19 deaths
Total deaths	382,073	536,764
Excess deaths	132,173	190,867

Sources: National COVID-19 ratios are from Heuveline and Tzen (2) and subsequent updates (9); five-country average is a weighted average with mid-2020 total population size from United Nations (10) as weights; US COVID-19 total deaths are from CDC (11), yearly 2020, all sexes, all ages, for 12-mo period ending on December 31, 2020, and monthly April 2020 to monthly March 2021, all sexes, all ages, for 12-mo period ending on March 31, 2021; excess deaths = total deaths × (1 − “five-country average”).