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There are lots of excess deaths compared with the last five years average but hardly any compared with 2018.
Discuss.
There are lots of excess deaths compared with the last five years average but hardly any compared with 2018.
Discuss.
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The chart shows the excess deaths - in percentages - of each year compared with the previous five years average.
Example:
Previous five years deaths
1, 4, 2, 5, 3
this year 6
excess compared to average of previous five years (and last year)
increase 100%
excess compared with two years ago (5)
20%
Meaningless figures.
You mean "higher than even the highest of any recent year" is meaningless?
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Not sure; it might be less than 2018.
It has been quite low since 2003
https://www.statista.com/statistics/281488/number-of-deaths-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/
It could be all my fellow boomers getting to dying age.
What is it about the fact, that we are just short of the total number of WW11 deaths, this year, that does not perturb you.
It is NOT a total number nor the total number killed in the war.
This is where you are all going wrong.
It is a percentage increase compared with the previous five years.
So, whatever the number, if the previous five years were low then the percentage increase of a few more will be high.
In 2018, did all the excess deaths happen outside the flu season. Like in 2020.
Does that make a difference?
I wonder if @EFLImpudence can show there is something wrong with this story:
"The Covid pandemic has caused excess deaths to rise to their highest level in the UK since World War Two.
There were close to 697,000 deaths in 2020 - nearly 85,000 more than would be expected based on the average in the previous five years.
This represents an increase of 14% - making it the largest rise in excess deaths for more than 75 years.
When the age and size of the population is taken into account, 2020 saw the worst death rates since the 2000s.
This measure - known as age-standardised mortality - takes into account population growth and age.
The data is only available until November - so the impact of deaths in December have not yet been taken into account - but it shows the death rate at that stage was at its highest in England since 2008."
"King's Fund chief executive Richard Murray said the picture was likely to worsen, given Covid deaths were rising following the surge in infections over recent weeks.
"The UK has one of the highest rates of excess deaths in the world, with more excess deaths per million people than most other European countries or the US," he said."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55631693
"The Covid pandemic has caused excess deaths to rise to their highest level in the UK since World War Two.
There were close to 697,000 deaths in 2020 - nearly 85,000 more than would be expected based on the average in the previous five years.
This represents an increase of 14% - making it the largest rise in excess deaths for more than 75 years.
When the age and size of the population is taken into account, 2020 saw the worst death rates since the 2000s.
This measure - known as age-standardised mortality - takes into account population growth and age.
The data is only available until November - so the impact of deaths in December have not yet been taken into account - but it shows the death rate at that stage was at its highest in England since 2008."
"King's Fund chief executive Richard Murray said the picture was likely to worsen, given Covid deaths were rising following the surge in infections over recent weeks.
"The UK has one of the highest rates of excess deaths in the world, with more excess deaths per million people than most other European countries or the US," he said."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55631693
I have only been trying to make sense of the reported figures.
Your post just adds more confusing figures.
Depending on which are correct obviously affects the outcome.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/281488/number-of-deaths-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/
The figure is less than the stated number of covid deaths.
This is higher than the number of deaths in each of the previous five years (going on the figures we have been looking at so far) therefore the average of the previous five years cannot be 607,000.
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It says monthly mortality rates yet states January to November 2020.
Your post just adds more confusing figures.
Depending on which are correct obviously affects the outcome.
Well, I can't because I don't know which is correct.
That is a higher number than I have seen elsewhere and it does not match the figures from Statista
https://www.statista.com/statistics/281488/number-of-deaths-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/
The figure is less than the stated number of covid deaths.
If 85,000 is 14% of the expected figure, then the expected figure must be 607,000.
This is higher than the number of deaths in each of the previous five years (going on the figures we have been looking at so far) therefore the average of the previous five years cannot be 607,000.
So the numbers are even higher.
It says monthly mortality rates yet states January to November 2020.
Well, it has more deaths so it would.
Using the Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional, as at week 46 (13th November 2020) 529,928 registered deaths in England and Wales.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/tran...s registered weekly,2019 in late January 2021.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/tran...s registered weekly,2019 in late January 2021.
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