Authors
Haidong Wang, Katherine R Paulson, Spencer A Pease, Stefanie Watson, Haley Comfort, Peng Zheng, Aleksandr Y Aravkin, Catherine Bisignano, Ryan M Barber, Tahiya Alam, John E Fuller, Erin A May, Darwin Phan Jones, Meghan E Frisch, Cristiana Abbafati, Christopher Adolph, Adrien Allorant, Joanne O Amlag, Bree Bang-Jensen, Gregory J Bertolacci, Sabina S Bloom, Austin Carter, Emma Castro, Suman Chakrabarti, Jhilik Chattopadhyay, Rebecca M Cogen, James K Collins, Kimberly Cooperrider, Xiaochen Dai, William James Dangel, Farah Daoud, Carolyn Dapper, Amanda Deen, Bruce B Duncan, Megan Erickson, Samuel B Ewald, Tatiana Fedosseeva, Alize J Ferrari, Joseph Jon Frostad, Nancy Fullman, John Gallagher, Amiran Gamkrelidze, Gaorui Guo, Jiawei He, Monika Helak, Nathaniel J Henry, Erin N Hulland, Bethany M Huntley, Maia Kereselidze, Alice Lazzar-Atwood, Kate E LeGrand, Akiaja Lindstrom, Emily Linebarger, Paulo A Lotufo, Rafael Lozano, Beatrice Magistro, Deborah Carvalho Malta, Johan Månsson, Ana M Mantilla Herrera, Fatima Marinho, Alemnesh H Mirkuzie, Awoke Temesgen Misganaw, Lorenzo Monasta, Paulami Naik, Shuhei Nomura, Edward G O'Brien, James Kevin O'Halloran, Latera Tesfaye Olana, Samuel M Ostroff, Louise Penberthy, Robert C Reiner Jr, Grace Reinke, Antonio Luiz P Ribeiro, Damian Francesco Santomauro, Maria Inês Schmidt, David H Shaw, Brittney S Sheena, Aleksei Sholokhov, Natia Skhvitaridze, Reed JD Sorensen, Emma Elizabeth Spurlock, Ruri Syailendrawati, Roman Topor-Madry, Christopher E Troeger, Rebecca Walcott, Ally Walker, Charles Shey Wiysonge, Nahom Alemseged Worku, Bethany Zigler, David M Pigott, Mohsen Naghavi, Ali H Mokdad, Stephen S Lim, Simon I Hay, Emmanuela Gakidou, Christopher JL Murray
Publication date
2022/4/16
Journal
The Lancet
Volume
399
Issue
10334
Pages
1513-1536
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Background
Mortality statistics are fundamental to public health decision making. Mortality varies by time and location, and its measurement is affected by well known biases that have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper aims to estimate excess mortality from the COVID-19 pandemic in 191 countries and territories, and 252 subnational units for selected countries, from Jan 1, 2020, to Dec 31, 2021.
Methods
All-cause mortality reports were collected for 74 countries and territories and 266 subnational locations (including 31 locations in low-income and middle-income countries) that had reported either weekly or monthly deaths from all causes during the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, and for up to 11 year previously. In addition, we obtained excess mortality data for 12 states in India. Excess mortality over time was calculated as observed mortality, after excluding data from periods affected by …
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