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Deaths in India during the COVID-19 Pandemic
May 12 , 2025
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- The record of births and deaths show that about 21 lakhs more deaths were registered in 2021, compared to 2020.
- This number is about six times the official Indian Covid-19 death toll for 2021 — which is 3.32 lakh.
- The official total pandemic death count on the Covid-19 dashboard of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare was 5.33 lakh.
- The WHO’s report released in 2022 put the number of “excess” deaths in India in 2020 and 2021 at about 47 lakhs.
- It is almost 10 times the official Indian figure of 4.8 lakh for those two years.
- More than 1.02 crore deaths were registered in the country that year.
- It was 21 lakhs more than the 81.15 lakh deaths that were registered in the previous year (2020).
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