Source: European Parliament
Data on excess mortality in EU/European Economic Area (EEA) countries is collected by the EuroMOMO project and by the Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the EU.
The EuroMOMO project is a European mortality monitoring activity based on overall mortality, but not cause-specific, supported by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), and hosted by Statens Serum Institut, Denmark[1].
The statistical office of the European Union (DG ESTAT) publishes an excess mortality indicator, which is based on data from National Statistical Institutes on weekly deaths on a voluntary basis since April 2020[2].
In the years 2020-2023 the excess deaths rates correlate with the COVID-19 waves and are inversely correlated with vaccination coverage, as highlighted by the WHO[3].
The Commission supports ongoing studies on post-COVID and its link to various disease outcomes, such as heart disease, diabetes, cancers, or neural dysfunctions[4].
The ECDC recommends further immunisation as the most effective measure to protect against severe viral respiratory diseases[5] and scenario modelling has shown that high vaccine uptake at the population level is strongly correlated with reduced disease burden.
- [1] https://www.euromomo.eu/
- [2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?oldid=509982#Recent_data_on_excess_mortality_in_the_EU
- [3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05522-2
- [4] https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/research-area/health/coronavirus_en
- [5] https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/acute-respiratory-infections-eueea-epidemiological-update-and-current-public-health-0