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.
Chryso Th PallariSouzana AchilleosAnnalisa QuattrocchiJohn GabelElena CritselisMaria AthanasiadouMohammad Reza Rahmanian HaghighiStefania PapatheodorouTianyu LiuAndreas ArtemiouJose M Rodriguez-LlanesCatherine M BennettClaudia ZimmermannEva SchernhammerNatalia Bustos SierraReindert EkelsonJackeline LobatoLaylla MacedoLaust Hvas MortensenJulia CritchleyLucy Pollyanna GoldsmithGleb DenissovNolwenn Le MeurLevan KandelakiKostas AthanasakisBinyamin BinyaminyTamar MaorFabrizio StracciGiuseppe AmbrosioKairat DavletovNataliya GlushkovaCyndy MartialMarie Chan SunTerje P HagenMario ChongManuel BarronBłażej ŁyszczarzIvan ErzenPedro Arcos GonzalezBo BurströmNataliia PidmurniakOlesia VerstiukQian HuangAntonis PolemitisAndreas CharalambousChristiana A DemetriouPublished in: BMJ global health (2024)
This study provides evidence of substantial excess mortality in most countries investigated during the first 2 years of the pandemic and suggests that COVID-19 incidence, stringency of control measures and vaccination rates interacted in determining the magnitude of excess mortality.