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Sweden: Daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths, by date of death
Number of daily new deaths reported in Sweden. Computed as the centered 7-day moving average.
Source
Government of Sweden, Socialstyrelsen (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Last updated
August 12, 2024
Unit
deaths

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Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

Statistics about covid-19 and the corona pandemic in Sweden.

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August 12, 2024
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https://www.socialstyrelsen.se/statistik-och-data/statistik/alla-statistikamnen/lagesbild-covid-19-influensa-och-rs-statistik/tidigare-publicerad-statistik/
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Socialstyrelsen. (2024). Tidigare publicerad statistik om covid-19. https://www.socialstyrelsen.se/statistik-och-data/statistik/alla-statistikamnen/lagesbild-covid-19-influensa-och-rs-statistik/tidigare-publicerad-statistik/

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“Data Page: Sweden: Daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths, by date of death”, part of the following publication: Edouard Mathieu, Hannah Ritchie, Lucas Rodés-Guirao, Cameron Appel, Daniel Gavrilov, Charlie Giattino, Joe Hasell, Bobbie Macdonald, Saloni Dattani, Diana Beltekian, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser (2020) - “COVID-19 Pandemic”. Data adapted from Government of Sweden, Socialstyrelsen. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/sweden-official-covid-deaths [online resource]
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Government of Sweden, Socialstyrelsen (2024) – processed by Our World in Data. “Sweden: Daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths, by date of death” [dataset]. Government of Sweden, Socialstyrelsen, “COVID-19, new registrations and deaths during the pandemic in Sweden” [original data]. Retrieved November 21, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/sweden-official-covid-deaths