2020-2021 NUTS Excess mortality - 3-week average (horizontal format)

This dataset results from DG REGIO calculations based on Eurostat data (demo_r_mwk3_t). It presents excess mortality comparisons of the number of deaths that occurred in 2020 and 2021 with the average number of deaths that occurred in the corresponding weeks of 2015 to 2019. The age structure of the population and the deaths is not taken into account. The figures shown are rolling three week averages centred around the week in question. Access the EUROSTAT data on their webpage - deaths by week and NUTS region - https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_r_mwk3_t/default/table?lang=en - and see the EUROSTAT webpage on national and regional weekly death statistics - https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Weekly_death_statistics Data is not available for Ireland. For Italy no data is available for the last weeks of 2021. This dataset presents a wide view of the longitudinal timeseries data for 2020-2021. This dataset - https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/dataset/2020-2021-EU-regional-excess-mortality-3-week-aver/2kk2-t5sf - provides the same values in a vertical format.