Press release No. 439 of 14 November 2023
WIESBADEN – 83,540 people died in Germany in October 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 only the figures in the third week of October (Week 42, from 16 to 22 October) exceeded the corresponding comparative value by a somewhat larger margin (+3%). In the other weeks in October, the maximum difference was +1%.
