Unsurprisingly, the start of the year turns out to be more deadly than that of last year.
The number of deaths, all causes combined, recorded in France between January 1 and February 22 is 14% higher than that recorded over the same period of 2020. A proportion which has remained stable since the beginning of the year, indicated Friday INSEE.
Compared to the same period of 2019, however, the increase is only 5%.
A difference which is explained by the fact that the seasonal flu was more deadly in early 2019 than in early 2020, specifies the statistical institute in its weekly death toll during the Covid-19 epidemic.
[1/3 Number of # deaths] From 01/01 to 02/22/21, 110,302 deaths, all causes combined, were recorded in 🇫🇷 on 03/05/21, ie 14% more than over the same period of 2020 (+ 13,722 deaths) and 5% more than in 2019 (+ 5,534 deaths) ➡️https: //t.co/IT97712fVd pic.twitter.com/XkH7T6P3aS
- Insee (@InseeFr) March 5, 2021
Since the beginning of January, mortality has been relatively stable.
On average 2,140 people died every day in January.
For the month of February, the average number of daily deaths "would be slightly lower", around 2,000, according to still provisional data.
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By comparison, at the time of the peak of the second wave, between November 1 and November 15, some 2,260 deaths were recorded each day on average, which is 33% more than in the same period of 2019.
An excess mortality of 9% in 2020 compared to the previous year
From March, monitoring mortality in 2021 will involve "favoring the comparison with the year 2019, a year without a Covid epidemic", even if the seasonal flu was virulent that year, also announced INSEE in this publication.
Thus, compared to 2019, the excess mortality observed between January 1 and February 22, 2021 is the highest in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regions (+ 16%), in the Grand-Est (+ 14 %) and in Bourgogne Franche-Comté (+ 13%).
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Over the whole of 2020, France recorded 54,700 more deaths than in 2019, i.e. an excess mortality of 9%.