Births and deaths, Slovenia, December 2020

1,402 live births and 3,221 deaths in December 2020

According to provisional data, in December 2020 1,402 children were born, 5.4% fewer than in December 2019, and 3,221 people died, 72.4% more than in December 2019. This is the highest monthly number of deaths in the last 20 years. In 19 days of December 2020, the daily number of deaths exceeded 100.
On average 104 people died each day in December 2020 (60 people per day died on average in December 2019). The most people died on 6 December 2020 (130). The week with the highest number of deaths was the first week in December (30 November to 6 December). In that week 797 people died. This was the week with the highest number of deaths in 2020.

18,363 live births and 23,891 deaths in 2020

In 2020, 18,363 children were born, 5.0% fewer than in the same period of 2019, and 23,891 people died, 16.0% more than in the same period of 2019. The number of live births in Slovenia has been declining for the last ten years while natural increase has been negative since 2017. According to provisional data for 2020, the highest natural decrease since 1945 is to be expected in Slovenia, mainly due to high mortality in November and December 2020.

Excess mortality

Excess mortality (i.e. excess number of deaths compared to the average number of deaths in the same periods in the past) in 2020 was 18.1%. This means that in this period, 18.1% more people died compared to the 2015–2019 average. Compared to 2015–2019, the number of deaths in individual months of 2020 deviated the most significantly in November (89.2%), followed by December (80.9%).

Excess mortality of the population aged 75 or more

According to provisional data, 16,573 people aged 75 or more died in Slovenia in 2020 (69.4% of all deaths). The excess mortality in 2020 the number of deaths compared to the average number of deaths at the same age in 2015–2019 was the highest in November 2020 (111.6%) and December 2020 (104.4%).

Excess mortality by statistical regions

Compared to the average of 2015–2019, in 2020, the number of deaths of the population of Slovenia was the highest in Gorenjska (23.9%) and Pomurska (21.8%), and the lowest in Goriška (5.4%). The gender gap in excess mortality was the most significant in Posavska (19.1% for women, 5.6% for men) and Obalno-kraška (18.6% for women, 5.4% for men).

Excess mortality in EU Member States

Data on excess mortality by months for EU-27 compared to the 2016–2019 average are until November 2020 graphically presented in the SURS release Monitoring economic recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The highest values of excess mortality from January to November 2020 were recorded in November. More than 90% of excess mortality was recorded in three countries: Poland (97.2%), Bulgaria (94.5%) and Slovenia (91.4%). In the spring, the highest values were recorded in April in Spain (78.9%) and Belgium (73.9%).

What do data for the first half of January 2021 show us?

According to the estimate, 1,474 people died between 1 and 17 January. In the same period of 2020, 1,069 people died.
Provisional data for January will be published on 5 March 2021.

Data publication

In response to the increased needs of users for up-to-date data, the Statistical Office started to publish monthly data on deaths and live births by days. In the SiStat Database, the already existing tables on live births and deaths by days are being updated monthly.
Eurostat continuously publishes provisional data on the number of deaths by weeks by countries. Slovenia provides provisional data monthly.

The National Institute of Public Health is publishing daily changes in the number of deaths with COVID-19 (in Slovene only).