War-related excess mortality in The Netherlands, 1944–45: New estimates of famine- and non-famine-related deaths from national death records

Despite there being several estimates for famine-related deaths in the west of The Netherlands during the last stage of World War II, no such information exists for war-related excess mortality among the civilian population from other areas of the country. Previously unavailable data files from Statistics Netherlands allow researchers to estimate the number of war-related excess deaths during the last stage of the war in the whole country. This study uses a seasonal-adjusted mortality model combined with a difference-in-difference approach to estimate the number of excess deaths in the period... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Ekamper, P.
Bijwaard, G.E.
van Poppel, F.W.A.
Lumey, L.H.
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Reihe/Periodikum: Ekamper , P , Bijwaard , G E , van Poppel , F W A & Lumey , L H 2017 , ' War-related excess mortality in The Netherlands, 1944–45: New estimates of famine- and non-famine-related deaths from national death records ' , Historical Methods , vol. 50 , no. 2 , pp. 113-128 . https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2017.1285260
Schlagwörter: ssci / excess mortality / famine / estimation / World War II / The Netherlands
Sprache: Englisch
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Despite there being several estimates for famine-related deaths in the west of The Netherlands during the last stage of World War II, no such information exists for war-related excess mortality among the civilian population from other areas of the country. Previously unavailable data files from Statistics Netherlands allow researchers to estimate the number of war-related excess deaths during the last stage of the war in the whole country. This study uses a seasonal-adjusted mortality model combined with a difference-in-difference approach to estimate the number of excess deaths in the period between January 1944 and July 1945 at a total of close to 91,000 (75%) excess deaths. Almost half of all war-related excess mortality during the last year of the war occurred outside the west.