Press release No. 465 of 10 December 2024
WIESBADEN – 86,291 people died in Germany in November 2024, according to extrapolated figures of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This was 3% below the median of the years 2020 to 2023 for that month. An examination of individual calendar weeks reveals that the figures in November were consistently 3% to 7% below the median of the four previous years. When assessing the seasonal development of mortality figures, it is important to bear in mind that a seasonal pattern was observed in each of the three pandemic years (2020 to 2022), whereby death figures were markedly higher towards the end of the year, with exceptional increases registered compared with pre-pandemic years. This pattern is reflected in the comparison of the 2024 mortality figures with the median value of the four previous years (2020 to 2023). Compared with periods before the pandemic, mortality figures in November 2024 are not unusually low. Recently, there has even been a relatively high (only in German) incidence of respiratory disease.
