COVID-19/All-cause deaths

This learning resource is about all-cause deaths under the learning resource COVID-19.

What follows are all-cause death charts for multiple countries, most of which were created from data from Human Mortality Database (HMD), mortality.org, a collaboration between organizations from Germany, the U.S., and France: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; University of California, Berkeley and INED, Paris. Some charts were created from other sources.

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Source of data
There are repetitive disclaimers under the charts about the data being preliminary.

Registration delay: The data from 2020 suffers from registration delay. The last two weeks suffer especially badly, but other weeks are also not free from the registration delay effect.

The number of years covered varies, depending on how much data HMD was able to obtain from the countries. Some data starts in 2000. The more years included, the stronger conclusion one can make about how rare the COVID death elevation in 2020 is compared to other years.

Scripts
Scripting to create these charts are at /Scripts.

All regions
Some countries and regions are transcluded in sections below, while some are only in their separate pages, to prevent chart rendering problems and speed up page loading. Regions covered: See also Category:Pages with graphs.
 * /Albania/
 * /Australia/
 * /Austria/
 * /Belgium/
 * /Bolivia/
 * /Brazil/
 * /Bulgaria/
 * /Canada/
 * /Chile/
 * /Colombia/
 * /Croatia/
 * /Czechia/
 * /Denmark/
 * /Ecuador/
 * /Egypt/
 * /Estonia/
 * /Finland/
 * /France/
 * /French Guiana/
 * /Greece/
 * /Germany/
 * /Hungary/
 * /Iceland/
 * /Iran/
 * /Israel/
 * /Italy/
 * /Japan/
 * /Kazakhstan/
 * /Kosovo/
 * /Latvia/
 * /Lithuania/
 * /Luxembourg/
 * /Mexico/
 * /Netherlands/
 * /New Zealand/
 * /North Macedonia/
 * /Norway/
 * /Oman/
 * /Paraguay/
 * /Peru/
 * /Poland/
 * /Portugal/
 * /Republic of Korea/
 * /Russia/
 * /Slovakia/
 * /Slovenia/
 * /Spain/
 * /Sweden/
 * /Switzerland/
 * /Taiwan/
 * United Kingdom
 * /England and Wales/ · /London/ · /Scotland/ · /Northern Ireland/
 * /United States/
 * /Arizona/ · /California/ · /Florida/ · /New York City/ · /Texas/

Many more countries could be added from world_mortality.csv, using script plotWmd.py.

Age-standardized mortality
ONS article linked below has weekly age-standardised mortality rates in 2020, which includes Montenegro, Serbia, Wales and Northern Ireland, and shows comparison between the selected country and England in a chart. The mortality rates are per 100,000 and are age-standardized.

A staggering observation is that the overall normal-mortality differences between countries make much more of a difference than the COVID does, as apparent e.g. from comparing low-rate Switzerland and high-rate Serbia; they do so year after year and are going to in near future. Switzerland's mid-term low values (as opposed to peak values) are at or below 15 weekly deaths per 100,000 while Serbia's are about 25 weekly deaths per 100,000.

Links:
 * Comparisons of all-cause mortality between European countries and regions: January to June 2020, ons.gov.uk