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Excess death rate in Ireland is well above average.

A combination of (a) the increase in the absolute number of the population, and (b) the increase in the average age of that population.

The table you've quoted compares the total number of deaths of two time periods e.g. in March 2023 there were 9.2% more deaths than than the average number of deaths in March from 2016-2019 - so if the average number of deaths in March 2016-2019 was 1,000, then the number of deaths in March 2023 was 1,092. But that doesn't take into account that there were more people in Ireland in March 2023 - our population is growing. There are simply more people in the country, you would expect more deaths.

But population increase alone doesn't account for a 9.2% increase, which brings me to my next point: that population is also, on average, older. In 2016, people over 65 accounted for 13.3% of the population. In 2023, it was 15.3%. 83% of all deaths comes from the over-65 age group. As that group continues to make up a larger proportion of the population, total mortality figures will continue to increase.

An increase in excess mortality is expected if your population is growing or getting older. Ours is doing both. The total number of deaths was projected to increase from around 30,000 in 2017 to around 38,500 in 2030 (based off the 2016 census, the projection based off the last census hasn't been released yet)

Sources:

[1] https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/fp/fp-mpds/measuringmortalityusingpublicdatasources2019-2023october2019-june2023/

[2] https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-mip/measuringirelandsprogress2022/society/

(and if anyone gets a sense of déjà vu, yes, I did make the exact same post in response to the exact same chart last month)

the cycle of life birth marriage death ,

most people get married before they are 35 or never get married at all .

to some extent life is predictable a series of fairly predictable stages

the fall of a dry leaf is a warning to the green ones.

The world has just become more adventurous, more options to travel, more everything since when our parents where young.

Nobody would have even thought traveling the world or going to Oz for a year was possible 40 years ago.

A car was a luxury. Take aways were once a year.

It all adds up.

Ahh, travel was a lot more adventurous pre Internet than it is now.

Nobody would have even thought traveling the world or going to Oz for a year was possible 40 years ago.

The number of Irish people in Oz/NZ 40+ years ago suggests otherwise.

And young people from that side of the world were certainly coming to the UK for "the big OE" too.

Then I’ve no explanation😂

You must be old.The government has not issued any notices about excessive deaths.But they have about processed food consumption-sugar,salt.Smoking.Alcohol consumed and excess/unhealthy weight.Putin is doing a fine job a bit east of here with reducing the populations.He hasn't needed to use any bombs,seedings yet.I did see somewhere that the UK(I think)had an excess of deaths over births last year.Did that set your mind racing?

You are maybe in your 50s. In my experience people start dying when they are over 58 depends on lifestyle eg did they drink or use drugs to excess or smoke too much or maybe they get ill

One day you wake up and think I'm getting old you buy newspapers you look forward to a good Sunday dinner you don't keep up with all the latest music hits anymore oasis or blur is your favourite band

You don't understand the latest gen z slang

One fella who died areound here last year donated his body to medical science.

Not even sure if thats the right description but they leave the body overground and study how long it takes to become a pile of bones.