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Under the new calculations, there were an estimated 10,994 excess deaths in the UK in 2023 – around a third of the total using the traditional method, which was 31,442. (PA Graphics)
The OHID has published revised figures for 2023 under the new methodology, showing an average of 209 excess deaths each week. In the first four months of 2024, the most recent data published, 729 ...
Glasgow effect. The Glasgow effect is a contested term [1] which refers to the lower life expectancy of residents of Glasgow compared to the rest of the United Kingdom and Europe. [2][3] The phenomenon is defined as an " [e]xcess mortality in the West of Scotland (Glasgow) after controlling for deprivation." [4]
Scotland had 19,000 more deaths than births in the year to June 2023, and Wales recorded 9,500 more. In contrast, there were 9,800 more births than deaths in England, and 2,500 more in Northern ...
For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [9] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [8] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022.
The total number of excess deaths in the UK since the start of the outbreak is just over 65,000. [28] On 12 August 2020, the UK death toll was reduced by more than 5,000, after a review of how deaths are counted in England. [29] In the latter half of August, testing increased from 2.3 to 2.6 tests per thousand population per day. [30]
Scotland and Wales both saw a higher number of deaths than births in the 12 months to June 2023, with an estimated 65,100 deaths in Scotland compared with 46,000 births, and 37,100 deaths in Wales ...
The following list sorts sovereign states and dependent territories and by the total number of deaths. Figures are from the 2024 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2023.