Excess mortality: what can we learn from cross-country comparisons?

Excess mortality has become a key metric to understand the true impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. But how is excess mortality measured? What can we learn from cross-country comparisons? Oxford academics, Janine Aron and John Muellbauer, provide an overview of excess mortality statistics and what insights we can take from them. Best wishes, Max A pandemic primer on excess mortality The mission of Our World in Data is to make data and research on the world’s largest problems understandable and accessible.