Recently, the Mortality Working Group of the Actuaries Institute (of which I’m a member) published our annual research paper on excess mortality in Australia and the world, covering the period 2020-2023. It’s a great summary, if you are interested in the topic. For this post, I’ve created a little visualisation for the experience around the world. Our paper has a section looking at that experience, and I’ve selected 20 countries for this animated chart. It’s a sobering reminder, from here in Australia, how much worse the pandemic was in most of the rest of the world than it was here.
Thanks to Richard Lyon, the main author of this part of our research, for the research itself, and reviewing this chart, and to geekinsydney, for creating the initial version of the chart.
And as is tradition, here a bit of beauty to finish this post – from New Zealand, which had the lowest excess mortality of any country we examined, so good, in fact, that for the majority of the four year period, New Zealand had fewer deaths than expected.
