Investigating regional excess mortality during 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in selected Latin American countries

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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 1 Summary of death registration sources for the six selected Latin American countries in 2020

Country	Data source	Place of death registration	Area studied	Periodicity of data availability^a	Smallest geographical coverage	Data quality^b
Brazil	Ministry of Health	Place of residence	27 federal states	Yearly data available since 1979	Municipality level	90–99% coverage of death counts
Chile	Ministry of Health	Place of residence	16 regions	Yearly data available since 1955	Municipality level	90–99% coverage of death counts
Ecuador	National Ecuadorian Statistical Office	Place of residence	24 provinces	Yearly data available since 1961	Municipality level	80–89% coverage of death counts
Guatemala	National Registry of Persons	Place of residence	22 departments	Yearly data available since 2009	Municipality level	94% coverage of death counts
Mexico	Secretariat of Health	Place of residence	32 federal states	Yearly data available since 1955	Municipality level	90–99% coverage of death counts
Peru	Ministry of Health	Place of residence	25 departments	Yearly data available since 1966	Municipality level	50–74% coverage of death counts

^aThe year that each country started to collect death information is from the World Health Organization
^bBased on the United Nations Demographic Yearbook Vital Statistics Questionnaire (United Nations Statistics Division) for the following years: 2017 (Brazil), 2020 (Chile), 2020 (Ecuador), 2007 (Guatemala), 2020 (Mexico), and 2015 (Peru)