Estimated daily excess deaths during COVID

For countries that have not reported all-cause mortality data for a given week, an estimate is shown, with uncertainty interval. If reported data is available, that value onlyis shown. For comparison, daily confirmed COVID-19 deaths are shown (7-day rolling average).

Source: The Economist (2023); WHO COVID-19 Dashboard

Note: For some countries, all-cause deaths and COVID-19 deaths use different date schemes, in which one refers to when the death occurred and the other to when it was reported. This difference couldproduce an artificial lag between the two time series.