Italy: excess mortality due to COVID by region 2020

Over the course of 2020, 75,891 deaths caused by COVID-19 were reported to the authorities in Italy. In total, the number of deaths in the country surpassed 746 thousand, the highest figure registered since World War II. This statistic shows the percentage change in the number of deaths in each region, comparing figures for 2020 with the average of deaths in the same period between 2015 and 2019. The three periods considered correspond to the three phases of the pandemic in Italy: the first wave, the summer break, and the second wave. Between March and May 2020, for instance, the number of deaths registered in Lombardy was 112 percent higher than the number of deaths registered on average in the same period in the five years from 2015 to 2019.

Percentage change in the number of deaths between 2020 and the 2015-2019 average in Italy, by region and wave of infections

Characteristic	October to December	June to September	March to May
Lombardy	37.1%	2.3%	111.8%
Veneto	44.4%	4.5%	19.4%
Piedmont	53%	-0.2%	47.5%
Campania	29.4%	1.1%	0.7%
Emilia-Romagna	25.4%	3.5%	43.6%
Lazio	22.5%	2%	2.5%
Tuscany	26.5%	3.5%	9.3%
Sicily	24.3%	2.8%	2.2%
Puglia	30.5%	7.4%	11.6%
Liguria	33.9%	1.2%	42.2%
Friuli-Venezia Giulia	45.6%	-1.3%	9%
Marche	23.7%	3.3%	27.7%
Abruzzo	19.8%	-2.5%	11.6%
Sardinia	34.9%	7.9%	8.3%
Umbria	24.6%	1.6%	1.8%
Autonomous Province of Bolzano	39.1%	3.5%	45.4%
Calabria	11.1%	4.2%	5.7%
Autonomous Province of Trento	65.4%	4%	53.1%
Basilicata	24.7%	-2.5%	3.9%
Molise	27.2%	2%	4.8%
Aosta Valley	63.7%	0.6%	42.6%