Lithuania registers 13 pct more deaths in 2020
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Lithuania registered 13 percent more deaths in 2020 than in 2019, the country s statistics office said on Thursday.
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A total of 43,400 people died in the country last year, 5,100, or 13.3 percent, more than in 2019. The number of deaths per 1,000 population increased to 15.5 in 2020, from 13.7 a year ago, it said. This is the largest increase in deaths in a year since 1990, Inga Masiulaityte-Sukevic, deputy director-general at Statistics Lithuania, told a news conference.
The monthly number of deaths from all causes in Lithuania increased to 4,300 last November and surged to 5,800 in December, compared to the average number of over 3,600 people, according to Masiulaityte-Sukevic.