Poland has not dealt with the pandemic. These data show how health protection “stopped”
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Poland was in the forefront of European countries in terms of excess deaths caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Excess mortality shows the number of deaths recorded in a given country during a pandemic, which is above the average over the past few years. This includes, inter alia, deaths caused by the failure of the normal functioning of the health care system.

  1. Data published by Eurostat show that in 2020-22, approx. 205 thousand jobs were recorded in Poland. excess deaths
  2. The excess mortality rate in Poland during the pandemic was 22,6%, which is the second worst result in Europe
  3. Only Bulgaria is in this infamous classification ahead of Poland. On the other side of the list, there are mainly Scandinavian countries
  4. At the peak of the pandemic in November 2020, the excess mortality rate in Poland was as high as 97%.
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Over 526 million cases of coronavirus-related cases have been registered worldwide, and more than 6,2 million people suffering from COVID-19 have died. Scientists estimate, however, that the number of deaths caused by the pandemic is several times greater, including due to the fact that the healthcare system did not function as usual. Data published by Eurostat show that during the pandemic more than 205 people died in Poland. people more than the average in recent years.

Poland with one of the highest mortality rates

In the case of the analyzed numbers, the baseline was the period from 2016 to 2019, when in Poland an average of 404 died of various causes each year. people. The COVID-2020 pandemic broke out in the first months of 19. Already in March 2020, in some regions of Europe, incl. in Italy and Spain there was a sharp increase in the number of deaths.

Later, this ratio increased in other regions of our continent, including Poland. According to official Polish statistics, over 116 have died in our country. people infected with the coronavirus, but Eurostat shows that there were as many as 205 excess deaths. Our excess mortality rate in 2020-22 was therefore 22,6%. In this respect, only Bulgaria fares worse in Europe, with a rate of 26,5%.

The four waves of the pandemic in the European Union

Slovakia completed the podium in this classification, followed closely by Romania. On the other side, i.e. in the places where the excess mortality was the lowest, there were the Scandinavian countries (Norway, Sweden and Denmark) as well as Iceland and Finland. The average mortality rate for the European Union was 12,5%. In the European Union, we have seen four waves of disease.

In Poland, the three waves took their toll the most — the most severe effect was the one from November 2020, when the excess death rate in our country was as high as 97%. In April 2021, the ratio decreased to 65,3%, and in December 2021 it oscillated around 70%. Each time it was several times more than the European average. In April 2020, as the virus was rampant in Europe, excess mortality in Poland was kept at a low level.

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