•EXCESS: Mexico City recorded in mid-February the highest excess mortality rate among the world’s metro areas with the highest number of coronavirus deaths -9,037 excess deaths per million-, analysts have found. The rate is almost five times higher than in other hard-hit places like New York City.
•DEFINITION: Defined as the difference between the total deaths from all causes during a period of time and the expected fatalities for the same place and time of year on average, excess mortality in Mexico City since the beginning of the pandemic until February 14 was at 83,235.
•COMPARISON: “Excess mortality in Mexico City is already -in absolute terms and in relative terms by population- above all cities compared”, analysts Laurianne Despeghel and Mario Romero Zavala said in Nexos magazine. The city of Lima in Perú holds the second spot with an excess mortality rate of 5,782.
•NUMBERS: Mexican authorities had estimated 33,107 coronavirus deaths in Mexico City for the period since the beginning of the pandemic last year until February 14 of this year. This would mean that the excess death number (83,235) would be 2.5 times greater than the official numbers.
