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This repository contains country-level data on all-cause mortality in 2015–2021 collected from various sources, see below. We are currently providing data for 81 countries. We welcome any contributions.
Preprint: Karlinsky & Kobak 2021, The World Mortality Dataset: Tracking excess mortality across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.27.21250604
For the excess mortality analysis using this data see https://github.com/dkobak/excess-mortality.
Notes:
We collect the weekly STMF data for the following countries: Australia*, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland , Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom (England & Wales + Northern Ireland + Scotland), United States.
We do not use Taiwan data from STMF because the monthly data (see below) is more frequently updated.
United States data from 2017 onwards are replaced with CDC 'predictions' that account for underreporting in recent weeks (see below).
For some European countries, STMF sometimes has more up-to-date (and backward revised) data than Eurostat, as it culls data from countries' NSOs. For each data point that exists in both datasets, we take the maximum between them as the final data.
* Australia's data (all years) is "Doctor Certified Deaths" rather than "All Registered Deaths". These constitute about 85%-90% of all deaths in Australia.
We collect the weekly data from Eurostat for the following countries: Albania, Cyprus, Georgia, Liechtenstein, Malta, Montenegro, Romania.
Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia:
2015: https://www.armstat.am/file/article/sv_12_15r_520.pdf2016: https://www.armstat.am/file/article/sv_12_16r_520.pdf2017: https://www.armstat.am/file/article/sv_12_17r_520.pdf2018: https://www.armstat.am/file/article/sv_12_18r_520.pdf2019: https://www.armstat.am/file/article/sv_12_19r_520.pdf2020: https://www.armstat.am/file/article/sv_12_20r_520.pdf
2015 to 2017: http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a65%3bcountryCode%3a31&c=2,3,6,8,10,12,13,14&s=_countryEnglishNameOrderBy:asc,refYear:desc,areaCode:asc&v=12018: https://www.stat.gov.az/news/source/2019_12ay.zip2019 to 2020: https://www.stat.gov.az/news/source/2021_1ay.zip
New York Times: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/tree/master/excess-deaths
NYT obtained these data directly from the Bolivian officials. Note that the data for April 2020 are missing. To quote NYT, "Bolivia’s Civil Registry recorded almost no deaths in April due to the closure of government offices during a lockdown. Officials said [at] least some of the deaths that occurred in April could have been registered in later months." In their analysis, NYT implicitly assumes that the excess mortality in April was zero.
Agency for Statistics of Bosnia & Herzegovina Natural Population Change Quarterly: http://www.bhas.ba/Calendar/Category/14#tab-releases
2015 to 2017: UNData - http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a65%3bcountryCode%3a76%3brefYear%3a2015%2c2016%2c2017&c=2,3,6,8,10,12,13,14&s=_countryEnglishNameOrderBy:asc,refYear:desc,areaCode:asc&v=12019 to 2020: Brazilian Population Registry: https://transparencia.registrocivil.org.br/registros
Note: The Brazilian Population Registry has data for monthly mortality in 2018, but it is significantly lower than UNData counts for previous years. This is possibly due to under-reporting in the Registry in early years. We chose not to include 2018 Brazilian currently.
Note: Brazilian Population Registry seems to be downward biased compared to 2015-2019 data from Brazil's Ministry of Health (http://tabnet.datasus.gov.br/cgi/deftohtm.exe?sim/cnv/obt10uf.def) by about 7 to 10%. For now we chose to stay with the Population Registry Data in order to best insure consistency with 2020-2021 data.
StatCan - https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2020017-eng.htm
Weekly mortality counts were transformed to ISO-8601 weeks by using reference date.
https://www.dane.gov.co/index.php/estadisticas-por-tema/demografia-y-poblacion/informe-de-seguimiento-defunciones-por-covid-19Direct link to the latest table in Excel (January 2021): https://www.dane.gov.co/files/investigaciones/poblacion/defunciones-covid19/anexos-defunciones-covid-nal-2020-02mar-2021-17ene.xlsx Here we sum values in three categories: Natural, Violenta (Violent), and En estudio (unclassified deaths).
2015 to 2020: UNData - http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a65%3bcountryCode%3a188&c=2,3,6,8,10,12,13,14&s=_countryEnglishNameOrderBy:asc,refYear:desc,areaCode:asc&v=12020: Costa Rica National Institute Of Statistics And Censuses (INEC) - Direct link to excel: https://www.inec.cr/sites/default/files/documetos-biblioteca-virtual/repoblacevdef_isem2020.xlsx
The INEC publication provides mortality data for the first half (January-June) of 2020, While UNDATA provides monthly data for January-April. Our estimate for May and June mortality is thus the mean of the difference between the January-June total and the January-June mortality.
2017: https://www.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/nacimientos-y-defunciones-2017/2018: https://www.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/category/poblacion-y-demografia/2019: https://www.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/defunciones-generales-2019/2020: https://www.registrocivil.gob.ec/cifrasdefuncion/Direct link to the latest table in XLS:https://www.registrocivil.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2021/02/Defunciones_Generales_act_21_FEB_2021.xlsx
Ecuador provides daily death counts. We summed them up to form weekly death counts.
2015 to 2019: http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a65%3bcountryCode%3a818&c=2,3,6,8,10,12,13,14&s=_countryEnglishNameOrderBy:asc,refYear:desc,areaCode:asc&v=12020: Monthly Bulletin of the Egyptian NSO (CAPMAS): https://www.capmas.gov.eg/Pages/Publications.aspx?page_id=5107&Year=23518
Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department:2015 to 2018: https://www.censtatd.gov.hk/hkstat/sub/sp160.jsp?productCode=FA1000942019 to 2020: Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics, https://www.censtatd.gov.hk/hkstat/sub/sp110.jsp?productCode=B1010002
Iran National Organization for Civil Registration: https://www.sabteahval.ir/avej/Page.aspx?mId=49826&ID=2182&Page=Magazines/SquareshowMagazineThe data are provided in Solar Hirji seasons (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter). Winter starts on Dec 22, so we count it as the next calendar year (e.g. Winter 1393 as the first entry for 2015).
2015 to 2019: New York Times: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/tree/master/excess-deathsBased on a study by Ireland's Health Information and Quality (HIQA) Authority2020: Based on the methodology of the HIQA study, we crawled RIP.IE with Gilad Gabiel's script to provide weekly mortality counts for 2020 onward.
Note: According to HIQA study, rip.ie usage is downward-biased in earlier years. To account for this, we have decided to only include data from 2018 onward. Additionally, comparing the estimates from our crawling and HIQA data for the same weeks, our estimates are higher at about 5%, since we do not post-process the data. In order to account for this, our rip.ie estimates are multiplied by 0.95.
Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics: https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/subjects/Pages/%D7%AA%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%94-%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%97%D7%9C%D7%AA-%D7%97%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D.aspx
Japanese Government Statistics Portal: https://www.e-stat.go.jp/stat-search/files?page=1&layout=datalist&toukei=00450011&kikan=00450&tstat=000001028897&cycle=1&tclass1=000001053058&tclass2=000001053059&tclass3val=0
Kazakhstan Bureau of National Statistics 2015 to 2018: Monthly Socio-Economic Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan: https://stat.gov.kz/edition/publication/month?lang=en
2019 to 2020: https://stat.gov.kz/official/industry/61/statistic/7
Direct link to Excel file: https://stat.gov.kz/api/getFile/?docId=ESTAT334793
Thanks to Noah Katz for culling Kazakhstan's data 2015 to 2018 for World Mortality.
Kosovo Agency of Statistics Quarterly Bulletin: https://ask.rks-gov.net/en/kosovo-agency-of-statistics/add-news/quarterly-bulletin-q4-2020
2015 - 2018: UNData: http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a65%3bcountryCode%3a417&c=2,3,6,8,10,12,13,14&s=_countryEnglishNameOrderBy:asc,refYear:desc,areaCode:asc&v=12019 onwards: National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic - The main results of natural population January - December 2020: http://www.stat.kg/kg/statistics/naselenie/
2015 - 2019: UNData: http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode:65;countryCode:446&c=2,3,6,8,10,12,13,14&s=_countryEnglishNameOrderBy:asc,refYear:desc,areaCode:asc&v=1
2020: Macao Special Administrative Region Statistics and Census Service Monthly Bulletin: https://www.dsec.gov.mo/en-US/Home/Publication/MonthlyBulletinOfStatistics
Department of Statistics Malaysia:
2017 onward: https://www.dosm.gov.my/v1/index.php?r=column/ctwoByCat&parent_id=115&menu_id=L0pheU43NWJwRWVSZklWdzQ4TlhUUT09
2015 to 2019: UNData: http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a65%3bcountryCode%3a480&c=2,3,6,8,10,12,13,14&s=_countryEnglishNameOrderBy:asc,refYear:desc,areaCode:asc&v=1
2020: Email correspondence with Statistics Mauritius.
National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEGI) Mexico: 2015 - 2019: https://www.inegi.org.mx/programas/mortalidad/#Datos_abiertos
Mexican Ministry of Health Excess deaths database: 2020 onward: http://www.dgis.salud.gob.mx/contenidos/basesdedatos/da_exceso_mortalidad_mexico_gobmx.html
We wish to thank Mario Romero Zavala & Laurianne Despeghel for helping us obtain this information.
2015 to 2020: UNData: http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode:65;countryCode:498&c=2,3,6,8,10,12,13,14&s=_countryEnglishNameOrderBy:asc,refYear:desc,areaCode:asc&v=1
2020: UNData MBS (as crude death rates): https://unstats.un.org/unsd/mbs/app/DataView.aspx?tid=3&cid=498&yearfrom=2015&yearto=2020&p=A
2020 Data was taken from UNDATA except for December, where crude death rates from MBS were transformed to mortality count by using the UNDATA Mid-Year Population estimate for Moldova 2020 which is 2,640,000.
2016 to 2020: Mongolian Statistical Information Service: http://www.1212.mn/tables.aspx?tbl_id=DT_NSO_2100_027V2&SOUM_select_all=0&SOUMSingleSelect=_0&YearM_select_all=0&YearMSingleSelect=_202011_202010_202009_202008_202007_202006_202005_202004_202003_202002_202001_202012&viewtype=table
2015 to 2019: UNData: http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a65%3bcountryCode%3a807&c=2,3,6,8,10,12,13,14&s=_countryEnglishNameOrderBy:asc,refYear:desc,areaCode:asc&v=1
2020: North Macedonia State Statistical Office Monthly Bulletin: https://www.stat.gov.mk/PrikaziPublikacija_1_en.aspx?rbr=823
Oman National Center for Statistics and Information 2015 to 2018: Deaths and Births Statistical Bulletin: https://www.ncsi.gov.om/Elibrary/Pages/LibraryContentDetails.aspx?ItemID=L61grnjbbbpxeUKErBemkg%3d%3d
2019 to 2020: Monthly Bulletin: https://www.ncsi.gov.om/Elibrary/Pages/LibraryContentDetails.aspx?ItemID=MgTlAFqddgBeormy3YBZDg%3d%3d
Note: 2019 monthly death counts was smaller at 1020 deaths than total yearly mortality count (Shown in the January 2021 Monthly Bulletin). In order to account for this, all 2019 monthly data was increased by the mean monthly difference of 85. Final official monthly data for 2019 should be available by November 2021.
Peruvian Ministry of Health - National Deaths Registration System (SINADEF): https://www.minsa.gob.pe/reunis/data/defunciones_registradas.asp
Peru provides daily death counts. We summed them up to form weekly death counts.
Philippines Statistics Authority: https://psa.gov.ph/vital-statistics/table
2015 to 2019: UNData: http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode:65;countryCode:634&c=2,3,6,8,10,12,13,14&s=_countryEnglishNameOrderBy:asc,refYear:desc,areaCode:asc&v=1
2020: Qatar Planning and Statistics Authority Monthly Statistics: https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=General&child=QMS
https://www.fedstat.ru/indicator/33556 (data available from 2006)The latest month is published on rosstat.gov.ru first and it takes several days for the data to appear on fedstat.ru. The exact URL is always different. For November 2020, the URL is https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/ldMWepjj/edn11-2020.htm.
San Marino Office of Economc Planning, Data Processing and Statistics - Bulletin of Statistics: https://www.statistica.sm/on-line/en/home/publications/bulletin-of-statistics.html
Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia: https://www.stat.gov.rs/en-us/oblasti/stanovnistvo/rodjeni-i-umrli/
Department of Statistics Singapore: https://www.tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/publicfacing/createDataTable.action?refId=15167
South Africa Medical Research Council (SAMRC): https://www.samrc.ac.za/reports/report-weekly-deaths-south-africa
South African data is provided in an Epidemiological Week format, which run from Sunday to Saturday.
SAMRC does not publish weekly data for years before 2020. Instead, the 2018--2019 data were used by SAMRC to forecast expected weekly mortality using the Excel Holt-Winters
time series forecasting method in Excel function. We denote this forecast as year = 0
in the data.
For additional details, refer to SAMRC (2021): METHODOLOGICAL NOTE: PREDICTED NUMBERS OF DEATHS BY EPI-WEEK FOR SOUTH AFRICA IN 2020 AND 2021, available at: https://www.samrc.ac.za/sites/default/files/files/2021-01-24/Methodological%20Note%20on%20Predicted%20Weekly%20Deaths%2020_Jan_2021.pdf
Statistics Sweden - Preliminary Statistics on Deaths (2015 onward, daily): https://scb.se/en/About-us/news-and-press-releases/follow-the-preliminary-statistics-on-deaths/
Note: Sweden has a significant number of deaths which occurred in an "unknown" date (and thus week) in all years. However, 95% these have a known month of death. In order to account for this, we have adjusted the daily number of deaths in Sweden by the difference between monthly deaths from daily deaths and total monthly deaths, and the residual with unknown month, distributed throughout the year. For example, the sum of daily deaths in April 2020 is 10376. The total monthly deaths in April 2020 is 10555, which yields a daily mean difference of 5.97 added to each day in April 2020. The 254 additional deaths in 2020 with unknown month, were distributed uniformly across months and then daily within each month. Thus, each day in April 2020 is increased by 6.67 deaths.
Weekly deaths in Sweden have been rounded to one significant digit to emphasize they were adjusted.
Taiwan Ministry of the Interior Monthly Bulletin of Interior Statistics: https://ws.moi.gov.tw/001/Upload/400/relfile/0/4413/d1d7bfc0-d03a-4cb6-bac2-06353bc6d082/month/month.html
Taiwan also has weekly data from STMF, but it is less updated, so we opted to keep the monthly data for now.
Tajikistan Agency on Statistics: 2015 to 2019: Demographic Yearbook of the Republic of Tajikistan 2021 (paper copy): https://www.stat.tj/en/news/publications/demographic-yearbook-of-the-republic-of-tajikistan
Monthly counts were aggregated to quarterly counts.
2020 Q1 to Q3: UNData MBS (as crude death rates): https://unstats.un.org/unsd/mbs/app/DataView.aspx?tid=3&cid=762&yearfrom=2020&yearto=2021&p=A Crude death rates were transformed to mortality counts by using the UNDATA Mid-Year Population estimate for Tajikistan 2020 which is 9,392,000.
2020Q4 was derived as the difference between total yearly deaths in 2020 (41743) and sum of 2020Q1-2020Q3.
We wish to thank the reporters from Eurasianet for providing us this information.
Tunisia National Institute of statistics Monthly Bulletin: http://www.ins.tn/en/publication/statistics-monthly-bulletin-december-2020
Uruguay Ministry of Public Health - Surveillance of all-cause mortality.The report presents weekly deaths in 2020 and a forecast of expected deaths based on the median of weekly deaths in 2015-2019 up to week 30. The data from the report's figure 3 was digitized using WebPlotDigitizer.
We denote this forecast as year = 0
in the data.
Official Statistics Registration Systems: https://stat.bora.dopa.go.th/stat/statnew/statMenu/newStat/home.php
2020: State Statistics Office of Ukraine: http://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/Access by: Statistical Information -> Population and migration -> Number of live births, deaths, by region
2019 data can be found following links from: http://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/express/expr2020/expres_2020.html
2015 to 2018: UNData: http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a65%3bcountryCode%3a860&c=2,3,6,8,10,12,13,14&s=_countryEnglishNameOrderBy:asc,refYear:desc,areaCode:asc&v=1
2019 to 2020: Uzbekistan State Committee on Statistics - Demographic situation January - December (Direct link to PDF): https://www.stat.uz/images/uploads/docs/demografiya_uz_18012021.pdf
2015--2016: STMF, see above.From 2017: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: https://data.cdc.gov/api/views/xkkf-xrst/rows.csvWe use the 'predicted' (weighted) time series that accounts for underreporting in recent weeks. See https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm for more information.We remove the last weeks (usually two) that are marked at https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html as being <90% complete.
Below are listed some sources that are currently not used for this dataset.
The monthly numbers for Georgia are not used because we prefer the weekly numbers from EuroStat.
2015--19: https://www.geostat.ge/media/34261/დემოგრაფიული-ვითარება-საქართველოში-2019.pdf, page 672020: https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/blogs/83781/posts/45084 (values digitized from an official plot)
Ireland Central Statistics Office: https://data.cso.ie/table/VSQ01
The monthly numbers for Romania are not used because we prefer the weekly numbers from EuroStat.
National Institute of Statistics: https://insse.ro/cms/en/comunicate-de-presa-view?field_categorie_value_i18n%5B%5D=15&created=8&field_cuvinte_cheie_value=&items_per_page=10
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