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

Table 3.

Ratio of excess deaths over recorded COVID-19 deaths for 33 countries.

Country Reported COVID-19 Deaths from OWID Excess Death/Reported per eLife Excess Death/Reported Economist Excess Death/Reported per Lancet Excess Death/Reported per WHO Excess Death/Reported Age-Adjusted Excess Death/Reported per Levitt Not Age-Adjusted
Australia 2253 −5.17 −4.22 −8.03 −6.33 −6.42 −0.94
Austria 13,733 1.11 1.23 1.33 0.87 0.95 1.12
Belgium 28,331 0.73 0.82 1.16 0.63 0.49 0.67
Canada 30,570 0.44 0.77 1.43 0.72 0.71 1.24
Chile 39,115 0.99 0.97 0.95 0.99 0.81 1.15
Croatia 12,538 1.34 1.53 1.83 1.37 0.97 1.28
Czechia 36,129 1.15 1.22 1.36 1.03 0.94 1.20
Denmark 3267 0.28 0.75 3.18 1.14 −0.97 0.73
Estonia 1932 1.64 1.95 2.91 1.75 1.38 1.73
Finland 1714 1.55 2.61 5.12 1.67 −0.42 2.53
France 123,805 0.64 0.79 1.25 0.66 0.47 0.78
Germany 111,925 0.79 1.01 1.81 1.74 0.49 1.15
Greece 20,790 1.16 1.22 1.22 0.93 0.99 1.42
Hungary 39,186 0.91 1.06 1.37 0.93 0.71 0.92
Iceland 37 1.35 −0.95 −8.49 −0.27 −3.82 0.29
Israel 8243 0.87 0.97 1.13 0.75 0.39 0.66
Italy 137,402 1.22 1.39 1.88 1.17 0.84 1.21
Latvia 4570 1.53 1.72 2.71 1.68 1.32 1.54
Lithuania 7387 2.17 2.35 2.71 2.34 1.53 1.66
Luxembourg 915 0.06 0.34 1.17 0.08 0.12 0.19
Netherlands 20,999 1.36 1.57 2.17 1.39 0.86 1.52
New Zealand 51 −54.65 −50.31 −17.10 −52.51 −80.75 −35.81
Norway 1305 0.84 1.52 0.57 −0.08 −2.29 −0.14
Poland 97,054 1.62 1.77 2.20 1.62 1.54 1.88
Portugal 18,955 1.09 1.29 2.13 1.08 0.86 1.35
Slovakia 16,635 1.45 1.54 1.53 1.46 1.12 1.43
Slovenia 5589 0.89 0.98 1.25 1.00 0.71 1.01
South Korea 5625 1.34 1.24 0.82 1.12 −5.38 5.94
Spain 89,405 1.15 1.29 1.81 1.16 0.77 1.07
Sweden 15,310 0.65 0.78 1.18 0.74 −0.02 0.24
Switzerland 12,217 0.93 1.11 1.27 0.68 0.46 0.83
United Kingdom 148,737 0.92 1.00 1.14 1.00 0.59 0.85
United States 827,887 1.16 1.23 1.36 1.13 1.05 1.35



TOTAL OR MEDIANS 1,883,611 1.09 1.22 1.36 1.00 0.71 1.15

OWID refers to Our World in Data master COVID-19 file down loaded from https://covid.ourworldindata.org/data/owid-covid-data.csv on 22-Apr-2022.