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Bulgaria has the highest mortality rate in the EU: Eurostat

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With 1,787 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, Bulgaria has the highest mortality rate in the EU in 2020, followed by Romania with 1,622 and Hungary with 1,513, according to Eurostat data.

The lowest mortality rate is in France – 863 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. Besides the Covid-19 pandemic, the most lethal for Europeans are the diseases of the circulatory system which have cost the lives of 1.7 million, almost 1.2 million deaths are due to cancer.

Among the EU members, the highest share of deaths due to diseases of the circulatory system was observed in Bulgaria (61%) and the lowest in France (20%), while the highest share of deaths due to cancer was observed in Ireland (29%) and the lowest share in Bulgaria (15%).



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