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Originally Posted by DrTiTus
I'm not sure what you mean by this exactly (net negative excess? what's an excess death? deaths based on prior year, or expected counts from a model?), but our death counts /have/ increased in absolute terms.
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I'm using single source data, in OurWorldInData and Bloomberg's graphical representation of it, but my understanding of the difference between the reported number of weekly or monthly deaths in 2020–2023 and the average number of deaths in the same period over the years 2015–2019 is that on any given week during those periods, New Zealand had an average of less deaths in 2020-2023 than during the same months in 2015-2019. Negative excess deaths.
In the Bloomberg report, NZ is only one of four countries with a negative number.