Cohort-resolved excess mortality in Germany (2000-2024): Patterns and implications for the SARS-CoV-2 era
Fig 5
German seasonal NEAMRs from 2000 through 2024, for the same fifteen age cohorts as in Figs 2, 3; NEAMR values given in % as in Figs 3, 6, however, time-resolved more coarsely for just three seasons constituting a full year (A): a tile is plotted for each of the three seasons of any year (‘flu season 1’, fls1: CW04-CW20; ‘summer season’, sus: CW21-CW39; ‘flu season 2’, fls2: CW40-subsCW03), which codes by colour the percentage NEAMR values averaged in time over the respective season (reddish: over-mortality, i.e. positive NEAMR; greenish: UM, i.e. negative NEAMR), now indicating significance by either an asterisk (NEAMR exceeding 95% CI) or a circle (NEAMR dropping below 95% CI); B: two distributions of the relative frequencies (histograms) of NEAMR values are plotted in one sub-panel, of which each reflects the data of one age cohort: one distribution for the years 2000-2019 (grey), and one for 2020-2024 (magenta); their arithmetic mean values are symbolised by solid vertical lines; the significance of the difference in mean values is indicated by star symbols: p < 0.05 (one), p < 0.01 (two), p < 0.001 (three); distinguishing females and males, the same is plotted in Fig D.7 and Fig D.8, respectively.