Overall Mortality Decreased by 4.5%, while COVID-19 Mortality Dropped Threefold in July

Various diseases caused 46,851 deaths in Ukraine in July—4.5% less than in June when 49,077 people died. For comparison, overall mortality was somewhat higher at 47,297 people in July 2020.

Mortality from half of the most common causes decreased. In particular, the COVID-19 numbers, which are recorded separately from respiratory diseases, continued to fall after an upsurge in early spring.

599 deaths from COVID-19 dropped threefold compared to the previous month, when there were 1,762 deaths, and is the lowest number this year. A number close to that was last seen a year before, in July 2020, when coronavirus had claimed 525 lives, while the figures were steadily growing after that.

The flu and pneumonia numbers decreased by almost one-fourth as well.

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COVID-19 mortality

Month	January 2020	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December	January 2021	February	March	April	May	June	July
COVID-19	0	0	9	243	411	449	525	928	1,735	4,050	6,184	6,175	3,922	3,014	8,104	12,545	6,327	1,762	599

As of today, one in roughly seven Ukrainians has been partially or fully vaccinated from COVID-19. Overall, 6.5 million people have been vaccinated, while 5.3 million of them have received two doses.

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Top mortality causes in Ukraine in July 2021

Cardiovascular diseases	30,337	64.8%
Oncologic diseases	6,401	13.7%
Fatal accidents	2,718	5.8%
Symptoms, signs, and deviations discovered during clinical and laboratory assessments (outside other categories)	2,086	4.5%
Digestive tract diseases	1,926	4.1%
Respiratory diseases	1,099	2.3%
COVID	599	1.3%
Nervous diseases	399	0.9%
Genitourinary system diseases	220	0.5%
Tuberculosis	206	0.4%
Other	860	1.8%

In the first seven months of 2021, 395,892 people died from various diseases in Ukraine—18.5% more than in the same period last year when there were 334,307 deaths.

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Total mortality in Ukraine

Month	January 2020	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December	January 2021	February	March	April	May	June	July
Total number of deaths	53,610	47,128	48,326	46,223	44,680	47,043	47,297	44,008	48,372	59,047	63,438	67,663	57,721	51,391	64,938	68,621	57,293	49,077	46,851

Mortality data is a crucial tool for decision-makers on the national and community level. Unfortunately, the data from the State Statistics Service of Ukraine is still almost two months behind, so we cannot realistically estimate the mortality rate in Ukraine right now.