Press release No. 361 of 12 September 2023
WIESBADEN – 78,521 people died in Germany in August 2023, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This corresponds roughly to the 2019 to 2022 median for that month (+1%). An examination of individual calendar weeks reveals that the mortality figures were below the relevant comparative values (-3% to -1%) in the first three weeks of August (Weeks 31 to 33, from 31 July to 20 August), while death figures exceeded that value (+6%) in the last week of August (Week 34, from 21 to 28 August). Therefore, the development of the mortality figures was largely unremarkable during the summer months this year. In the preceding years, the figures sometimes differed significantly from the patterns usually observed in the summer season, for instance, due to heat waves.
