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. 2022 Jun 24;213:113754. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.113754

Table 2.

Excess death estimates for 2020–2021 according to 6 evaluations in the 33 eligible countries*.

Country 2021 Population (millions) from HMD** Two Years Actual All-Cause Death from HMD Two Year Excess Death per eLife Two Year Excess Death per Economist Two Year Excess Death per Lancet Two Year Excess Death per WHO Two Year Excess Death per Levitt Age-Adjusted Two Year Excess Death per Levitt Not Age-Adjusted
Australia 24.547 277,603 −11,639 −9500 −18,100 −14,258 −14,460 −2116
Austria 8.935 180,363 15,261 16,877 18,300 11,941 13,007 15,343
Belgium 11.494 239,201 20,613 23,364 32,800 17,919 13,958 19,036
Canada 36.108 586,135 13,474 23,548 43,700 22,018 21,829 37,938
Chile 17.960 263,154 38,894 38,094 37,200 38,698 31,640 45,021
Croatia 4.051 119,871 16,826 19,186 22,900 17,178 12,205 16,050
Czechia 10.730 269,137 41,480 43,942 49,100 37,040 34,079 43,262
Denmark 5.864 111,772 913 2453 10,400 3716 −3157 2390
Estonia 1.332 34,559 3172 3774 5630 3374 2675 3346
Finland 5.548 112,800 2662 4469 8780 2858 −716 4345
France 65.467 1,297,407 78,910 97,390 155,000 81,849 57,767 96,831
Germany 82.533 2,005,701 88,446 113,242 203,000 194,987 54,740 128,557
Greece 10.711 274,725 24,177 25,269 25,400 19,394 20,515 29,551
Hungary 9.762 296,496 35,811 41,714 53,800 36,499 27,813 36,090
Iceland 0.362 4640 50 −35 −314 −10 −142 11
Israel 9.293 99,437 7203 7967 9280 6178 3201 5421
Italy 59.630 1,454,193 167,816 190,872 259,000 160,800 115,690 166,373
Latvia 1.906 63,088 6979 7851 12,400 7668 6046 7023
Lithuania 2.802 90,523 16,008 17,396 20,000 17,253 11,283 12,274
Luxembourg 0.635 9106 57 314 1070 69 109 171
Netherlands 17.479 339,242 28,495 33,017 45,500 29,213 17,969 32,020
New Zealand 5.013 67,586 −2787 −2566 −872 −2678 −4118 −1826
Norway 5.408 82,491 1101 1986 742 −100 −2994 −182
Poland 38.482 998,284 157,247 171,806 214,000 157,531 149,722 182,454
Portugal 10.323 248,658 20,677 24,530 40,400 20,449 16,286 25,602
Slovakia 5.480 131,782 24,131 25,538 25,400 24,320 18,662 23,786
Slovenia 2.103 47,090 4953 5492 6980 5584 3944 5617
South Korea 51.631 621,862 7529 6967 4630 6289 −30,286 33,417
Spain 47.511 948,016 102,991 115,685 162,000 103,935 68,720 95,964
Sweden 10.408 184,326 9926 11,976 18,100 11,253 −367 3666
Switzerland 8.688 146,969 11,394 13,539 15,500 8247 5640 10,139
United Kingdom 67.145 1,353,941 136,795 148,889 169,000 148,896 87,307 125,716
United States 329.995 6,849,500 961,032 1,017,655 1,130,000 932,460 871,295 1,116,088



TOTALS 969.336 19,809,658 2,030,597 2,242,701 2,780,726 2,110,570 1,609,862 2,319,376

HMD, Human Mortality Database short-term mortality fluctuation file stmf.csv downloaded from https://www.mortality.org/Public/STMF/Outputs/stmf.csv on 1-May-2022.

Data is given for full two-year period 1-Jan-2020 to 31-Dec-2021 for all countries except for Australia to 2021 week 48 and Canada to 2021 week 48. Because we use a standard year of 365.25 days (52.1786 weeks), the two years 2020 & 2021 are 104.357 weeks. The HMD Total Deaths, Expected Deaths and Excess Deaths for Australia and Canada are all smaller than they would be if data for these two locations were no delayed.

Data in the HMD are summed over weeks available. This means that both the Total Deaths and Population are incomplete for Australia (to week 47) and Canada (to week 48).