population - Fewer deaths in Baden-Wuertemberg
In Baden-Württemberg, fewer people have died. In the past year, 120,200 people died in the Southwest, which is 4,500 fewer than in 2022, as the Statistical State Office announced today.
Compared to the average mortality figures of the pre-Corona years 2016 to 2019, there were 12,200 deaths more in Baden-Württemberg. The reason, according to the assessment of the Statistical State Office, is the aging of the population. Therefore, the number of deaths has increased.
The mortality rate in Baden-Württemberg has also decreased. It fell by 6.3% in 2023 compared to the previous year. For the first time, it was also below the average of the pre-Corona years 2016 to 2019. Mortality rate refers to the number of deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
In 2023, the mortality rate in the Southwest was therefore 920 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. The calculation of mortality was age-standardized, which means that population growth and aging were taken into account. This excludes the comparison of death figures of different time periods.
Decisive for the decrease in mortality, according to the assessment of the Statistical State Office, is that fewer people died in connection with Corona. There were 3,300 fewer people in the Southwest in 2023. That's fewer than half as many as in 2022 (6,800 deaths).
Press release
The decrease in mortality in Baden-Württemberg in 2023 can be partly attributed to fewer deaths related to Coronavirus, as stated in the press release. Despite the overall increase in deaths due to the aging population, the total number of deaths in Stuttgart and the Southwest in 2023 was 4,500 fewer than in 2022. Consequently, the population of Baden-Württemberg experienced a lower mortality rate in 2023 than in the pre-Corona years.
