Magnitude and determinants of excess total, age-specific and sex-specific all-cause mortality in 24 countries worldwide during 2020 and 2021: results on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from the C-MOR project

Introduction To examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, we estimated excess all-cause mortality in 24 countries for 2020 and 2021, overall and stratified by sex and age.Methods Total, age-specific and sex-specific weekly all-cause mortality was collected for 2015–2021 and excess mo...

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Main Authors: Laust Hvas Mortensen, Andreas Charalambous, Julia Critchley, Bo Burström, Kairat Davletov, Annalisa Quattrocchi, Tianyu Liu, Marie Chan Sun, Giuseppe Ambrosio, Eva Schernhammer, Qian Huang, Nolwenn Le Meur, Elena Critselis, Andreas Artemiou, Terje P Hagen, Fabrizio Stracci, Kostas Athanasakis, Catherine M Bennett, Manuel Barrón, Stefania Papatheodorou, Lucy Goldsmith, Jose M Rodriguez-Llanes, Souzana Achilleos, Chryso Th. Pallari, John Gabel, Maria Athanasiadou, Mohammad Reza Rahmanian Haghighi, Claudia Zimmermann, Natalia Bustos Sierra, Reindert Ekelson, Jackeline Lobato, Laylla Macedo, Gleb Denissov, Levan Kandelaki, Binyamin Binyaminy, Tamar Maor, Nataliya Glushkova, Cyndy Martial, Mario Chong, Błażej Łyszczarz, Ivan Erzen, Pedro Arcos Gonzalez, Nataliia Pidmurniak, Olesia Verstiuk, Antonis Polemitis, Christiana A. Demetriou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2024-04-01
Series:BMJ Global Health
Online Access:https://gh.bmj.com/content/9/4/e013018.full