Excess deaths

Dashboards developed by Statistics Canada

Dashboard 1: Provisional weekly death counts. Data source: Table: 13-10-0768-01 (updated monthly)

Dashboard 2: Provisional weekly estimates of the number of deaths, expected number of deaths and excess mortality. Data Source: Table: 13-10-0784-01

Dashboards developed by Community.

Deaths by Age. Data source: Table: 13-10-0768-01

Deaths by Cause

Dashboards developed by Statistics Canada

URL: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2021028-eng.htm (includes two interactive Dashboards and Key insights)

Notes:

Originally when published in 2021, this page showed death statistics for year 2020-2021 only, with the following Key insight published:
- Changing impacts on age groups

Since the onset of the pandemic, older Canadians have experienced a disproportionate share of both excess deaths and COVID-19-caused deaths. From March 2020 to early March 2021, about one third of the excess mortality and just over half of the deaths caused by COVID-19 observed in Canada involved individuals older than 84. In the first period of excess mortality, there were over 4,000 excess deaths among this older population, with a similar number of deaths caused by COVID-19. In the second period of excess mortality, the gap between these two numbers widened, with roughly 3,700 excess deaths and about 5,500 COVID-19-caused deaths, according to the provisional data. The higher number of COVID-19 deaths may be attributable to the disease taking a heavy toll on some individuals who may have been at a high risk of dying over this period of time, regardless of the pandemic. In addition, the indirect effects of the pandemic, possibly resulting in decreases in the number of deaths attributable to other causes, could also be at play.

On 2022-09-08, this page was updated to also include death statistics for 2022, at which point a new Key insight has been added:
- National trends

Nationally, periods of significant excess mortality have been observed from March 2020 to June 2020; from October 2020 to February 2021; and from August 2021 to November 2021. Canada experienced a new period of significant excess mortality starting in January 2022, when Omicron was the dominant variant. Excess deaths were observed across all age groups but were relatively higher among those younger than 45 and among men, particularly in the western provinces.

Dashboard 1: Provisional weekly death counts. Data source: Table: 13-10-0768-01 (updated monthly)

Dashboard 2: Provisional weekly estimates of the number of deaths, expected number of deaths and excess mortality. Data Source: Table: 13-10-0784-01

Notes:

This dashboard does not show data by Age.
Originally when published in 2021, this dashboard showed excess deaths data for year 2020 and 2021 only. Since 2022-09-08 it includes 2022 data.

Dashboards developed by Community.

Deaths by Age. Data source: Table: 13-10-0768-01

Notes:

Allows to visualize and compare deaths statistics since Junuary 2020 from various dataset releases.
Allows to smooth (average) data over several weeks for easier comparison with pre-pandemic two-year average (black line)

Deaths by Cause

Notes:

Allows to visualize and compare deaths statistics by death cause and region
Allows to smooth the data for easier comparison with pre-pandemic average (black line)