excess_mortality/elife2021

Tracking excess mortality across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic with the World Mortality Dataset

Ariel Karlinsky & Dmitry Kobak

eLife 2021: https://elifesciences.org/articles/69336

This folder contains the data and code reproducing the entire analysis for our eLife paper.

The data were frozen on July 3, 2021, and are stored in the frozen-data folder. This corresponds to the World Mortality Dataset commit 0aa90df. For the exact sources of this frozen snapshot of the World Mortality Dataset see frozen-data/world-mortality-sources.md.

The Python notebook saves all figures to the figures folder and outputs the analysis results as CSV files into the export folder. The resulting figures (in PDF and in PNG) as well as the CSV files are provided here directly.

For the up-to-date data and analysis (continuously updated after the paper was accepted), see https://github.com/akarlinsky/world_mortality (data) and https://github.com/dkobak/excess-mortality (analysis).