Plot of the Swedish fatalities among people over the age of 80 in the month January,..,December in the years 2015 - 2020

and January - May in 2021

Heigth of rectangle corresponds to 1500 deceased per 100000, i.e. 1.5%

Brown - 2015

Blue - 2016

Yellow - 2017

Red - 2018. Rather strong flu season.A peak of mortalities can be identified in March

Green - 2019

Black - 2020. Covid 19 plus flu. A visual increase of mortalities in April and May. At the end of the year the death toll increases somewhat more than in previous years from a very low value in October

White - 2021. Covid 19 plus flu. The somewhat increased death toll for the end of 2020 continues into January. After that there is less fatalities then in any of the other years!

Table of Swedish fatalities per 100000 among people over the age of 80 in the years 2015 - 2020

It can be seen that a significant excess mortality 2020 only can be found in April and May. There ist then another increase in December continuing into January 2021. The mortality in February and March 2021 is then lower then in any other year 2015 - 2020

The main reason for the increased mortality in the cathegory "older than 80" is that this now is a larger group of the population! 1 November 2014 Sweden had 508608 inhabitants older than 80, 1 November 2020 corresponding number was 555034. This is an increase of 9%!

Table over the number of inhabitants in Sweden that were older than 80 at the reference date 1 November in the years 2014 - 2020

Corresponding computations for Germany