Excess deaths 2025

Excess mortality: Deaths from all causes compared to average over previous years https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000282 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2022 47 countries of the Western World, 3, 098, 456 Excess mortality 2021, 42 countries 2022, 43 countries Conclusions Excess mortality has remained high in the Western World for three consecutive years This raises serious concerns. Government leaders and policymakers need to thoroughly investigate underlying causes of persistent excess mortality. 2015–2019 compared to 2020–2024 Percentage difference between the reported weekly or monthly deaths in 2020–2024 and the average deaths in the same period in 2015–2019 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-average-baseline Correlation and causality Smoking is correlated with lung cancer Asbestos exposure is correlated with mesothelioma Alcohol consumption is associated with liver cirrhosis Obesity is correlated with high sugar intake Radiation exposure is correlated with cancer Dioxin exposure is correlated with cancer Causality may be adjudicated by larger scale associations, consistent between countries, where other explanations are unlikely, where effect follows cause, where greater exposure causes more harm with a plausible biological mechanism with coherence between bench science and epidemiological data supported by (even limited) experimentation. By analogy to other causes of harm and sometimes by reversibility. https://drjohncampbell.co.uk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices