ft_excess_deaths.csv

Data Dictionary

Data Dictionary

• country - the country to which the data applies
• region - where applicable, the subnational or administrative region. This duplicated country for national-level data
• period - the period for which the data is collected. This can be “week” or “month” data reported daily has been aggregated into weeks
• year - the year within which the period ends. The is the same as the year element of the date field.
• month - the month within which the period ends. This is the same as the month element of the date field.
• week - week number is either taken exactly from countries’ own data, or is calculated using the following method for countries reporting daily data, we take the most recent run of seven days in the data to be the most recent week, and then aggregate each prior seven-day run into a new week, with any trailing period fewer than seven days at the start of January clipped off
• date - the date at which the week ends
• deaths - historical daily, weekly or monthly numbers of all-cause deaths for as far back as we have been able to obtain this data
• expected_deaths - the median value of this data for the equivalent period in years from 2015 to 2019
• excess_deaths - the difference between deaths and expected deaths (negative values indicate fewer deaths than the recent historical average)
• excess_deaths_pct - excess_deaths as a percentage of expected_deaths