1. HealthBulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia

   Where excess deaths in 2020–2022 were highest — among countries with weekly death counts

   Bulgaria — 21.4%, Lithuania — 21.3%, Slovakia — 18.9%, Croatia — 14.9%, United States — 14.7%. Deaths a year above the 2015–2019 trend, percent, average (Human Mortality Database, Macroscope's calculation); countries with HMD data.

   Source: Human Mortality Database (excess deaths: Macroscope's calculation); UN WPPOpen on the chart →

More findings

• Lithuania: higher GDP per person than Russia
• The European Commission expected low inflation for 2022. In all 27 EU countries it came in higher
• Lithuania: the poorest report bad health 12 times as often as the richest
• Bulgaria: more deaths than births for over 30 years in a row
• Adults in 6 European countries where 90% or more go online daily did not read worse by 2023
• Lithuania in 2018: net emigration of at most 0.18% by 2023. In 2023 arrivals exceeded departures by 1.57%

All findings →