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The UK saw 7% more deaths than normally expected during 2020 - one of the highest in Europe, data from the Office for National Statistics shows.
Within the UK, England's death rate was 8% above expected levels across the whole year, Scotland's was 6%, Northern Ireland 5% and Wales 4%.
During the autumn wave in 2020, Poland, Spain and Belgium were among the worst affected countries.
By the end of the year, the UK was in the top 10 worst hit.
The ONS figures cover up to 18 December so do not include deaths from this year when the UK and the rest of Europe experienced a third wave of coronavirus, leading to thousands of Covid-19 deaths.
The data compares the number of deaths with what would be expected based on the pervious five years.
For under-65s the UK had the second highest levels of excess mortality in 2020 at 7.7%.
Only Bulgaria recorded a higher rate - 12.3% - among the countries analysed by the ONS.
Dr Annie Campbell, from the ONS, said the figures showed the pandemic had not "exclusively" affected the oldest age groups in the UK.
For deaths among all age groups Poland ended 2020 with the highest rate (11.6% above the five-year average), followed by Spain (10.6%) and Belgium (9.7%).
England ranked seventh on this list (7.8%) with the UK eighth (7.2%).
In the middle of 2020, the UK had the highest cumulative mortality rate of the list but by the end of the year it had been overtaken by six other countries.
All-cause mortality allows countries to be compared more easily, even if they record Covid-19 deaths in different ways. It also takes into account the indirect impact of the pandemic, such as deaths from other causes that might be related to delayed access to treatment.
The figures also take account of the average age of a country's population and the average level of deaths in recent years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56456312
The UK saw 7% more deaths than normally expected during 2020 - one of the highest in Europe, data from the Office for National Statistics shows.
Within the UK, England's death rate was 8% above expected levels across the whole year, Scotland's was 6%, Northern Ireland 5% and Wales 4%.
During the autumn wave in 2020, Poland, Spain and Belgium were among the worst affected countries.
By the end of the year, the UK was in the top 10 worst hit.
The ONS figures cover up to 18 December so do not include deaths from this year when the UK and the rest of Europe experienced a third wave of coronavirus, leading to thousands of Covid-19 deaths.
The data compares the number of deaths with what would be expected based on the pervious five years.
For under-65s the UK had the second highest levels of excess mortality in 2020 at 7.7%.
Only Bulgaria recorded a higher rate - 12.3% - among the countries analysed by the ONS.
Dr Annie Campbell, from the ONS, said the figures showed the pandemic had not "exclusively" affected the oldest age groups in the UK.
For deaths among all age groups Poland ended 2020 with the highest rate (11.6% above the five-year average), followed by Spain (10.6%) and Belgium (9.7%).
England ranked seventh on this list (7.8%) with the UK eighth (7.2%).
In the middle of 2020, the UK had the highest cumulative mortality rate of the list but by the end of the year it had been overtaken by six other countries.
All-cause mortality allows countries to be compared more easily, even if they record Covid-19 deaths in different ways. It also takes into account the indirect impact of the pandemic, such as deaths from other causes that might be related to delayed access to treatment.
The figures also take account of the average age of a country's population and the average level of deaths in recent years.
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