Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: excess-mortality-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2026	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	122	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	122	0
Excess deaths per 100,000 people, 2020 to end of dataexcess_per_100kHeadline	The headline figure: Excess deaths per 100,000 people, March 2020 to the end of each country's data (at most December 2023).	Number · up to 1 decimal	-264.9Greenland1,012.8Serbiamiddle 272.4	122	0
Excess deaths, 2020 to end of dataexcess_deathsMeasure	The authors’ total of deaths above the expected baseline over the same window, as a whole number; negative means fewer deaths than expected.	Number · whole numbers	-330Luxembourg1,362,274United Statesmiddle 16,819	120	0
Excess deaths as % of a year's expected deathsexcess_percent_of_baselineMeasure	The excess over the same window as a percentage of one year’s expected deaths, as the authors publish it.	Number · up to 1 decimal	-27.3Greenland129.0Maldivesmiddle 39.1	114	0
Years coveredperiodReading year	The years this country’s cumulative count covers, from March 2020 to the last month of published deaths; a shorter window means a smaller total.	Year	—	4	0
Data untildata_untilLabel	The last date of this country’s death counts, exactly as the authors write it.	Text	—	13	0
Death countsdata_frequencyLabel	Whether the country’s death counts are weekly or monthly.	Text	—	2	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

One edition, covering 122 countries.

Not in this dataset · 103 places this site covers

Ariel Karlinsky and Dmitry Kobak (World Mortality Dataset) gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AfghanistanAmerican SamoaAngolaAnguillaBahrainBangladeshBeninBritish Virgin IslandsBurkina FasoBurundiCambodiaCameroonCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChadChannel IslandsChinaComorosCook IslandsCôte d’IvoireCuraçaoDjiboutiDominicaDR CongoEquatorial GuineaEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaGabonGambiaGhanaGrenadaGuamGuineaGuinea-BissauGuyanaHaitiHondurasIndiaIndonesiaIraqIsle of ManKenyaKiribatiLaosLesothoLiberiaLibyaMadagascarMalawiMaliMarshall IslandsMauritaniaMicronesiaMontserratMoroccoMozambiqueMyanmarNauruNepalNigerNigeriaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPakistanPalauPapua New GuineaRepublic of the CongoRwandaSaint LuciaSaint MartinSamoaSão Tomé and PríncipeSaudi ArabiaSenegalSierra LeoneSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSouth SudanSri LankaSudanSyriaTanzaniaTimor-LesteTogoTongaTrinidad and TobagoTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUgandaUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican CityVenezuelaVietnamYemenZambiaZimbabwe

1. 1 · Publisher

   Ariel Karlinsky and Dmitry Kobak (World Mortality Dataset)

   github.com

2. 2 · Their file

   Excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic (World Mortality Dataset)

   excess-mortality.csv

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: excess-mortality-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/excess-mortality

From the table published by Ariel Karlinsky and Dmitry Kobak, who compiled the World Mortality Dataset from national statistical offices and computed each country's baseline; stored as they publish it, with the reported COVID-19 death counts and the model's uncertainty left out.

• Charted

  Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Health & Wellbeing

• Near neighbours

  • Life Expectancy at BirthUN DESA Population Division · 74 held · 1950–2023
  • Under-Five Mortality RateUN IGME · 73 held · 1952–2024
  • Prevalence of Severe Food InsecurityFAO · 9 held · 2015–2023