Germany has by far the largest increase in mortality in December 2022 compared to the 2016-2019 average by as much as +37%. Austria follows with +27%. Bulgaria and Romania have decreased mortality.
Excess mortality in the EU in December 2022 rose to +19% of the average number of deaths for the same period 2016-2019, the highest value recorded in 2022. This is a sharp increase compared to November, when excess mortality was +8%,
In December 2022, excess mortality continued to vary among EU members. Romania and Bulgaria (both -6 %) recorded values lower than the national monthly average for 2016-2019, while Hungary (+3 %), Luxembourg, Spain and Malta (all +10 %) had higher death rates of less than half of the EU average.
Conversely, the highest rate was recorded in Germany (+37%). Other countries with rates above +20% were Austria (+27%), Slovenia (+26%), Ireland and France (both +25%), the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Estonia (all +23%), Denmark (+ 22%), and Finland and Lithuania (both +21%).
The EU saw earlier major peaks in excess deaths in April 2020 (+25%), November 2020 (+40%), April 2021 (+21%) and November 2021 (+27%). July 2022 also showed significantly higher mortality than the baseline, possibly due to the heat waves that affected parts of Europe during the reference period.
source: narod
