Status: December 9th, 2021 1:37 p.m.
The Federal Statistical Office has evaluated the death statistics: In the first twelve Corona months alone, 7.5 percent more people died than in the comparison period. The pandemic was “decisive” for this.
The corona pandemic since March 2020 has caused the number of deaths in Germany to rise extremely sharply. This has been announced by the Federal Statistical Office. The evaluation of the death statistics since the beginning of the pandemic shows that in the first twelve months of the pandemic from March 2020 to February 2021 even 7.5 percent or almost 71,000 more people died than in the twelve months before.
“Significantly influenced by the pandemic”
“From March 2020 to mid-November 2021, more people died in Germany than would have been expected taking into account the demographic development,” said the Vice President of the statistics authority, Christoph Unger. The increase cannot be explained solely by the aging of the population, “but has been significantly influenced by the pandemic”.
According to the information, around 985,600 people died nationwide in 2020. That was five percent – or 46,000 deceased – more than in 2019. Due to the aging of the population, only an increase in the number of deaths of around two percent was to be expected.
Who died of and who with corona?
According to new results of the cause of death statistics, a total of 39,758 people died of Covid-19 as a basic disease and 8,102 people with Covid-19 as an accompanying disease in 2020. 70 percent of the people who died of Covid-19 as a basic disease were 80 years or older. Most of them had previous illnesses.
According to the statistics authority, around 176,000 patients were treated with or because of Covid-19 in the hospitals in 2020. Around 36,900 of these people had to receive intensive medical care, around 21,000 of them were artificially ventilated. Every sixth Covid-19 case in the hospital was fatal.