1/ Europe infant mortality trend. Let's have a look how NL compares with other peers.
Not so good.
Note that the 0-4 year age group mortality is dominated by the 0-1 years. Unfortunately, the mortality is only available by 5 years bins in . By averaging death_Y_LT5 / pop_LT5 we dilute a bit. The real mortality for the 0-1 year group can be estimated to be ~4-5 times higher. But we will continue with the 5 year population normalization.
2/ Let's add some more countries. Romania and Bulgaria are on the way to leave NL behind. I'm wondering what the plan is in NL @hugodejonge? Becoming the last soon? Could we get details about why this trend is going the wrong way? What is the main root cause?
3/ Let’s now see how 2020 compares to other countries.
4/ We can add some more countries.
5/ The below shows the situation in 2000, so two decades ago.
The situation is obviously going the wrong way. The gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in current prices from 1999 to 2020 has doubled. It appears, that healthcare investments, are not on the list of priorities for what is one of the richest countries on this planet.
6/ NL doesn't seem to have the investement priorities right. Billions are spent in testing, hiring police and lockdown subventions instead of investing in healthcare. Maybe @RIVM_vDissel can elaborate, why this is going the wrong way.
7/ Sources and dashboard:
Mortality: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/DEMO_R_MWK_05__custom_1657955/default/line?lang=en
Population: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/DEMO_PJAN__custom_1643622/default/table?lang=en
Method:
Group population by 5 year bins. Normalize the raw mortality data by this population (for year and age group).
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/orwell2022/viz/Europeinfantmortalitytrends/trend2?publish=yes