Perspective on Excess Mortality of COVID-19 for Various Situation Worldwide

COVID-19 pandemic has given crucial impact on global mortality. Among them, to investigate excess death in various countries and situation would be important. Global excess deaths were previously estimated to be 5.42 million, but recent report showed approximately 14.83 million, that is 2.74 times. In Japan, the negative value of excess death was formerly persisted, which was from continuing perfect infection control by Japanese people for long. After that, cumulative excess deaths in Japan from Jan 2020 to Sep 2022 were estimated to be 50-140 thousand. Excess mortality includes uncertainty and substantial heterogeneity associated with political and scientific interest.

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