In the US, deaths actually surpassed births from 12/2020 - 03/2021! flowingdata.com/2022/02/03/whe
Quite a stark way to look at the impact of the pandemic (as well as declining birth rates). I definitely wouldn't have guessed these lines crossed.
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The CDC database this plot used only goes back to '95, but I wonder at what other times in US history the line crossed. I'd guess in WW2… but probably not during the Vietnam War or WW1? During the 1918 flu epidemic? The Depression?
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Interestingly, even without the pandemic, the trend is such that it looks like the lines would (barely) cross sometimes in the winter in the 2020's.
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Can't speak to the others but I have seen figures that during the Depression mortality was actually lower overall (slightly higher suicide rates, but much lower workplace accident and driving fatalities, etc.)
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Korean War had higher deaths-per-year than Vietnam, fewer overall because it was shorter. But was during the baby boom, so unlikely.
Civil War remains all-time high, not just because both sides counted. 600-700k on a population of 29 million? like 2% of the country was killed 😣
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Maybe WWII but that would be mostly due to the number of men gone from the country, actual US losses weren't that much (~600k over 5 years). The Vietnam War would be a similar story (60k over 10 years).
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I seem to remember that you really pick out wars from the charts. But pandemics, you can.
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For example: cdc.gov/nchs/data-visu
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