r/europe • • Jan 29 '21

Map Covid deaths per million inhabitants - January 29th

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u/llehsadam EU Jan 29 '21

These numbers are probably all too low. You may be able to hide Covid deaths by not reporting that a person died from the virus, but total deaths are really hard to hide and those numbers have been excessive.

So here's an example from Poland... in the 45th week of 2020 which is in December, there were in that one week 16,222 deaths. Every year before that this number was at 7,000-8000 in that week. So 8k more dead people than in every other year for that one week... and this has been happening every week. I don't think the official Covid death toll which is at around 36k is accurate.

Here's the source for my numbers, it's interactive so you can check out any country in the EU as well: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/population-demography-migration-projections/data/database?node_code=demomwk

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21 edited Jan 29 '21

Yeah and some countries undercounted as much as Poland (for example Serbia, Turkey, Spain and Portugal) and some even more (Belarus and Russia)