Sweden went from being the country with one of the highest per capita death rates from Covid at the start of the pandemic, and has continually fallen down the rankings, to now be in 33rd position, close to its global ranking of of natural deaths per capita, and of similar order of magnitude per capita deaths to other countries such as Switzerland, Austria, and even Germany.
As such Sweden's figures tell no less sad a story than the average of other European countries.
(In fact, even in places like the state of California the per capita death rate is higher than Sweden.)
And now that the full-year total mortality figures are available from Sweden for 2020, we can place things into factual context.
The following table lists Sweden's per capita death rate over the past decade.
As can be seen, the average per capita death rate in Sweden for the preceding decade before 2020 is 9.23 per million citizens, with a standard deviation of 0.29:
View attachment 3175265The per capita death rate for 2020 was 9.45 per million, just 2.4% up on the average of the preceding years and within the +/- 3.2% standard deviation.
Another way of looking at that data is to note that the 2019 number of 8.6 deaths per million is a clear statistical outlier, being some 7% lower than the average of the years preceding 2019.
Meaning that Sweden entered 2020 with a statistically meaningful "pent-up" mortality.
So if one took the average of the "death-light" 2019 and the above-average 2020 (which one should do give the nature of mortality analysis), one gets an average figure of
9.0 deaths per capita.... which is bang in line with the previous years.
We don't hear too much in the media these days about what a "disaster" Sweden is.
Funny that.
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