… 5-year average will overestimate excess deaths, while for localities … excess deaths. Despite
this limitation, when we look at the development of deaths in the past 5 years, in all countries …

… and territories, and 252 subnational units for selected countries, from … countries and territories
(and 252 subnational units for a subset of nations) included in our analysis, excess deaths …

… for countries with negative total excess deaths and for selected countries where excess deaths
were … Some of the countries in our dataset have excess death estimates available in the …

… of excess deaths, we report the number of excess deaths per … excess deaths relative to the
baseline annual deaths. For one … countries with negative total excess deaths and for selected …

… excess deaths metrics and the ratio R of excess deaths over … of excess deaths metrics in
33 countries with most-reliable data 33 countries were included in the main analysis, selected …

… million excess deaths globally, 2.74 times more deaths than … There are wide variations in
the excess death estimates across … , we select six European countries that have overlap in their …

… The HMD core provides annual death rates from 2010 to 2018 for all the countries …
mortality estimates depending on the reference period selected. Our findings indicated that …

… The black dots represent the medians of the posterior distribution of relative excess deaths.
… Selected studies focusing on regional excess mortality during 2020 in countries not included …

… was subtracted from the sum of the observed 2020 deaths to obtain an estimate of excess
deaths. The statistical significance of excess deaths was determined using the 95% CIs …

… We welcome similar estimates of age-, sex- and region-specific death rates for other
countries to enable proper comparisons of the impact of COVID-19 on total mortality. …