Excess Mortality and COVID-19 Deaths: Preliminary Data from Serbia and Comparison with European Experience
Geographica Pannonica
; 27(1):1-9, 2023.
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in English
| Web of Science | ID: covidwho-2307335
ABSTRACT
Mortality statistics is underlay for public health measures and action and consequently it is one of the major indicator in measures of Covid-19 impact on population. This study aim to explore excess mor-tality during the Covid-19 pandemic in Serbia. Excess mortality compares expected and observed num-ber of deaths during the given period. Analysis in this paper was based on excess deaths and excess mortality rate. Data was downloaded from the national COVID-19 database and obtained from a rele-vant source from the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. In order to provide better understand-ing of excess death, the excess mortality rate was calculated for the period January 2015-June 2022. For the period January 2015-February 2020, 38 months were observed without excess deaths, while in months with excess deaths, almost in all months excess mortality rate was below 12%. Since March 2020, the excess mortality rate has increased significantly, with highest values in December 2020 (91.4%), October (84.3) and November (67.8) 2021.
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Geographica Pannonica
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2023
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