The Ministry of Health published today (Thursday) the mortality data for the years 2021-2020 against the background of the corona plague.
At the same time, mortality data from the twenty years before the plague were published.
In the total months of the corona, March 2020 to December 2021, an excess mortality of 6 percent was found compared to the corresponding period in the 2019-2017 average.
Among those aged 65 and over, there was an increase of 4%.
In 2020, the mortality rate was 3% higher than in 2019 (1% for females and 5% for males).
In 2021, the estimated age-standardized mortality rate was 6% higher than in 2019 (4% for females and 7% for males).
From the mortality data per month in 2020 compared to the average in 2019-2017, it was found that the rate was significantly higher in April by 4%, in August by 12%, in September by 19%, in October by 23% and in December by 6%.
As you may recall, the first infections in Israel were discovered only in February 2020 and the virus has spread widely since March.
In 2021, a rate was recorded that was significantly higher in January by 10%, in February by 7%, in August by 23%, in September by 20% and in October by 8%.
Corona Department at Herzfeld Medical Center in Gedera, Photo: Yossi Zeliger
This comparison for those aged 65 and over indicates an even higher rate in 2020. For example, in August there was an increase of 11%, in September of 19%, in October of 24% and in December of
4%.
In 2021, there was an increase of 7% in January, 23% in August, 17% in September and 6% in October.
Significant excess mortality was found in months with relatively high corona morbidity.
The first cause of death is cancer
In the years 2019-2020, the age-standardized mortality rate in Israel decreased by 29% for males and 28% for females.
On average for the years 2017-2019, cancer was the first cause of death for women aged 15 and over and men aged 25 and over and heart disease the second cause for men and women aged 45 and over.
Accidents were the first cause of death for boys aged 24-15 and the second for ages 44-25.
Girls' accidents are the second leading cause of death at the age of 24-15 and the third at the age of 44-25 and the third for boys and girls from birth to the age of 14. Suicide was the second leading cause of death for boys aged 24-15 and women aged 44-25, and the third for girls aged 24-15 and men aged 44-25
In the average years 2019-2017, there was a decrease in the standardized death rate for age by 13% for women and 10% for men compared to the average for 2010-2008, a decrease was recorded in most causes of death: a decrease in cerebrovascular disease by 29% for females and 18% for males. Diabetes in 26% and 21%, respectively, in heart disease in 26% and 21%, in kidney disease in 18% and 23%, and in accidents in 24% and 17%.
An increase in dementia was recorded in 68% for females and 65% for males.
In sepsis (immune response to severe infection) in 35% and 45%, respectively, in pneumonia and influenza in 12% and 18%, in Alzheimer's in 28% and 12%, in pneumonia due to inhalation of solids / fluids in 14% and 33%, and Parkinson's 6% for females and 13% for males.
In an international comparison, the age-standardized death rate in Israel is ranked third lowest out of 25 Western countries, the rate for males is ranked second and females fourth.
The rate is low in most causes of death, but 4.7 times higher in sepsis, 2.7 times higher in kidney disease, 2.3 times higher for unknown reasons, 2.2 times higher in diabetes, and 1.3 times higher in hypertension compared to the average of 15 Western European countries in the EU in 2018.
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