Fürth (dpa / lby) – In 2020, 2021 and the first eight months of the current year, more people died in Bavaria than usual. The State Office for Statistics found that the number of deaths in 2020 was 6.9 percent higher, as it was announced on Thursday informed. For 2021 they are even 10 percent higher than the median of the four years before. However, Corona is not the only factor for the change. So far in 2022, mortality rates have been increased every month – sometimes by more than 10 percent – but research into the causes is still difficult here.
For 2020, the state office attributes the increase in mortality to 30 percent to the change in demographics – i.e. to the aging of society, among other things. For 2021, this accounts for 37 percent. Such a differentiation is not yet possible for 2022; other factors such as the high temperatures in summer could also have played a role here.
According to the State Office, the additional mortality in 2020 and 2021, which cannot be explained by the change in population, is due in particular to Corona. There was a significantly increased number of deaths, especially during the first, second and fourth corona waves. Overall, the number of people who died from Corona is even greater than the additional mortality in these two years. This can be explained, among other things, by slowing factors such as the largely absent flu outbreaks and lower numbers of accidental deaths, to which the countermeasures to Corona also contributed.
The State Office also differentiates between people who died of Corona and people who died with Corona. By February 2022 – more recent figures are not available – 21,092 people died of Corona, another 3820 died with Corona.
