The 8 Places with Unusual Death in 2020
Applying the excess death in The Netherlands to 2020 death increases
The excess death in the 2017/2018 flu season in The Netherlands was 18.2% (percent beyond expected death), and that value can serve as an upper limit of what usual variations of death look like.
Death increases which reach BEYOND 18.2% excess death would then be categorized as “unusual increases in death” — where it may be necessary to look for an explanation of where the excess death comes from (because it is no longer of the usual kind).
The World Bank puts out annual crude death rates by nation, and you can check to see which nations had a death rate in 2020 which was more than 18.2% higher than their death rate in 2019.
When that work is performed, 8 places on Earth are discovered, where the 2020 death rate was more than 18.2% higher than the 2019 death rate.
Collectively, these 8 places represent 7% of the world population, meaning that — for 93% of the world — death rates in 2020 were normal or usual (the kind which does not demand explanation, like unusual rates do).
If 93% of the world experienced usual variation in death in 2020, then it runs contrary to the narrative that the world was in the grips of an unprecedented pandemic.
Evidence suggests that only 8 places in the entire world (7% of world population) were in the grips of unprecedented death.
Reference
[Crude death rates by nation and year] — World Bank. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CDRT.IN
[18.2% Excess Death in the Netherlands during the 2017/18 flu] -- van Asten L, Harmsen CN, Stoeldraijer L, Klinkenberg D, Teirlinck AC, de Lange MMA, Meijer A, van de Kassteele J, van Gageldonk-Lafeber AB, van den Hof S, van der Hoek W. Excess Deaths during Influenza and Coronavirus Disease and Infection-Fatality Rate for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2, the Netherlands. Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 Feb;27(2):411-420. doi: 10.3201/eid2702.202999. Epub 2021 Jan 4. PMID: 33395381; PMCID: PMC7853586. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7853586/