TABLE 1

Historical and reported all-cause mortality, excess deaths, reported COVID-19 deaths and proportion of excess deaths attributed to COVID-19, in 22 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

Country	Historical all-cause deaths (n)^#	Reported all-cause deaths (2020; n)	Excess deaths (n)	COVID-19 deaths		Reported period
Country	Historical all-cause deaths (n)^#	Reported all-cause deaths (2020; n)	Excess deaths (n)	Reported deaths (n)	Proportion of excess deaths (%)^¶	Reported period
Austria	57 899	59 272	1373	754	54.9	30 Dec–13 Sep
Belgium	47 913	56 074	8161	9472	116.1	06 Jan–30 Aug
Brazil	518 306	573 822	55 516	48 954	88.2	04 Jan–19 Jun
Chile	76 684	91 690	15 006	12 058	80.4	02 Jan–16 Sep
Denmark	33 375	33 131	−244	621	−254.5	02 Jan–12 Aug
Ecuador	49 769	86 515	36 746	10 963	29.8	02 Jan–16 Sep
France	411 181	428 554	17 373	30 698	176.7	06 Jan–06 Sep
Germany	587 931	602 115	14 184	8668	61.1	06 Jan–23 Aug
Iceland	1372	1379	7	10	142.9	30 Dec–09 Aug
Israel	30 817	32 278	1461	1147	78.5	02 Jan–16 Sep
Italy	307 680	347 194	39 514	27 670	70	09 Jan–23 Jun
Netherlands	102 945	113 042	10 097	6249	61.9	09 Jan–16 Sep
New Zealand	24 792	24 247	−545	25	−4.6	06 Jan–27 Sep
Norway	27 407	27 007	−400	264	−66	30 Dec–30 Aug
Peru	79 115	163 401	84 286	31 586	37.5	02 Jan–23 Sep
Portugal	79 566	84 688	5122	1871	36.5	01 Jan–15 Sep
South Africa	346 083	378 059	31 976	15 499	48.5	01 Jan- 15 Sep
Spain	298 676	350 594	51 918	29 848	57.5	30 Dec–13 Sep
Sweden	61 605	65 434	3829	5846	152.7	01 Jan–08 Sep
Switzerland	40 988	41 856	868	1711	197.1	30 Dec–09 Aug
United Kingdom	432 109	491 266	59 157	41 608	70.3	28 Dec–11 Sep
United States	1 829 331	2 110 542	281 211	175 406	62.4	29 Dec–22 Aug
Total	5 445 544	6 162 160	716 616	460 928	64.3

^#Historical deaths calculated as the median number of deaths from the past 5 years (2015–2019) for the reported period.

^¶Percentages of excess deaths that could be attributed to COVID-19 were calculated as the number of reported COVID-19 deaths divided by the number of excess deaths and multiplied by 100.