Number of deaths per year per 1000 inhabitants since 1960

 


This plot shows the number of deaths per year in Portugal since 1960 per 1000 inhabitants. 
The average annual death rate for the period 1960-202 is indicated, with the bars being colored according to the deviation from this average value.

For the years 2020 and 2021 the deaths related to covid-19 are marked in orange. According to the Sico-EVM and the DGS reports in 2020 there were 123767 deaths, 6906 of which due to covid-19, and in 2021 there were 125197 deaths, 12049 of which due to covid-19.

The records from 1960 to 2008 where obtained in the Pordata website; the records since 2009 from the https://evm.min-saude.pt/ website; and the covid-19 related deaths are from the DGS reports whose data is available in a github repository.


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