Where death rates rose the most during the Covid-19 pandemic

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NEW YORK - The United States had more deaths above normal levels during the pandemic than most other wealthy countries, according to data released by the World Health Organisation this month.

US deaths were 15 per cent above normal - a number surpassed by only four other large countries in the same income group: Chile, the Czech Republic, Poland and Romania.

Some of the countries with the largest increase in death rates during the first two years of the pandemic were those in the upper-middle-income group: Ecuador, Mexico and Peru. But many countries with the lowest income - including most African countries - are not included in the charts because their data is less reliable.

But among upper-middle and low- or lower-middle-income countries, the number of deaths above normal estimated by the WHO was often many times larger than the number of reported deaths.

 

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