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Excess Deaths
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This document displays excess deaths based on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) data. The OECD's "Excess mortality by week" dataset was downloaded on 2024-02-25 from:
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https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?tm=covid%20deaths&pg=0&hc[Unit%20of%20measure]=Deaths&snb=6&df[ds]=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df[id]=DSD_HEALTH_MORTALITY%40DF_MORTALITY&df[ag]=OECD.ELS.HD&df[vs]=1.0&pd=2023-W01%2C&dq=.W.M._T._T.DT&ly[rw]=TIME_PERIOD&ly[cl]=REF_AREA&to[TIME_PERIOD]=false
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The OECD states:
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Reporting of the number of All-cause and COVID-19 deaths particularly for the most recent weeks may be only partial and subject to significant revision. The calculated values for excess deaths for the most recent weeks are therefore also subject to significant revision.
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Please see the Methodological Note from the OECD:
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https://stats.oecd.org/wbos/fileview2.aspx?IDFile=97aacc20-eac4-4e44-8f59-9fb5b7e25090
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The Methodological Note points out that population growth makes the calculated excess death percentages larger than they should be, because the baseline is from 2015 to 2019. The Countries tab provides population data.
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The Methodological Note also states that caution should be exercised in cross-country comparisons due to differences between the date deaths occur vs. the date deaths are registered, and due to under-reporting and revisions.
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The OECD data was flattened so that there is one row per country per week, with a column for each value displayed in the charts. For information on how this was done, visit:
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https://brucewebber.us/article/excess-deaths
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