Appendix: Excess All-Cause Mortality Across Countries

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Appendix: Excess All-Cause Mortality Across Countries

This summary shows how various countries fared with average all-cause mortality.  This removes the ambiguity of how countries counted C19 ‘with’ versus ‘of’ deaths. Statistically, variations of +/- 5% are considered insignificant, and need to be compared to one year in future to average out. Notably Sweden showed just 1.5% excess without locking down healthy people, and keeping masks voluntary.

Country/ Expected Age-Standardized Mortality per 100,000 / Actual / Excess / Percentage Increase

Source: CEBM Oxford
Source: CEBM Oxford

In addition to the all-cause mortality in general, many countries that enforced various lockdowns of all healthy people (against the pandemic plan), showed higher than normal levels of mortality for people who were generally not at risk from C19.  That is, for Canada as an example, 16 people under the age of 19 died ‘with’ C19.  However, per the mortality.org site (using STATSCAN data), up to 30 additional young people per week for 60 weeks died, total of almost 1000 excess under 14’s, that were not due to C19.  Sweden as a comparison showed normal youth mortality for the whole year.

From StatsCan. 2020 to Dec 2021, 30,000 ‘with C19’ deaths; approx. 540,000 all other causes

For perspective, even countries that fared poorly (more than 10% excess mortality) saw their levels match the previous 10 years up until the early 2000’s, like the UK:

Similar for the USA, it saw mortality levels similar to 2008 and earlier: