Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the HMD team decided to establish a new data resource: Short-term Mortality Fluctuations (STMF@HMD) data series. Weekly death counts provide the most objective and comparable way of assessing the scale of short-term mortality elevations across countries and time. More details about this data project can be found in the published paper.

Before using the data, please consult the STMF Methodological Note, which provides a more comprehensive description of this data project. We also recommend that you read the STMF Metadata. This document includes country-specific information about data availability, completeness, data sources, as well as specific features of included data.

We invite you to explore these data using our online STMF visualization toolkit.

Here you can download the following data and documentation:

STMF Metadata: a concise description of country-specific data and data sources.

STMF Methodological Note: description of input and output data formats and methodology.

STMF output file (xlsx or pooled csv): weekly death counts.

Original data (country-specific csv files in one zip file): original death counts in standardized format.

Data availability

Last update: 09/01/2025
Country First Week Last Week
Australia 01.2015 21.2025
Austria 01.2000 32.2025
Belgium 01.2000 30.2025
Bulgaria 01.2000 27.2025
Canada 01.2010 08.2025
Switzerland 01.2000 33.2025
Chile 01.2016 33.2025
Czech Republic 01.2005 27.2025
Germany 01.2000 33.2025
Denmark 01.2007 26.2025
Spain 01.2000 31.2025
Estonia 01.2000 32.2025
Finland 01.1990 27.2025
France 01.2000 28.2025
England and Wales 01.2010 33.2025
Northern Ireland 02.2015 34.2025
Scotland 01.2000 34.2025
Greece 01.2015 14.2025
Croatia 01.2000 27.2025
Hungary 01.2000 28.2025
Iceland 01.2000 14.2025
Israel 01.2000 32.2025
Italy 01.2011 26.2025
S.Korea 01.2010 39.2023
Lithuania 01.2000 27.2025
Luxembourg 01.2000 27.2025
Latvia 01.2000 31.2025
Netherlands 01.1995 32.2025
Norway 01.2000 32.2025
New Zealand 52.2010 30.2025
Poland 01.2000 30.2025
Portugal 01.2000 31.2025
Russia 01.2000 52.2021
Slovakia 01.2000 26.2025
Slovenia 01.2000 27.2025
Sweden 01.2000 26.2025
Taiwan 01.2000 52.2024
USA 02.2015 27.2025
All data in one xlsx fileicon
All data in one csv fileicon