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.