War-related excess mortality in The Netherlands, 1944–45: New estimates of famine- and non-famine-related deaths from national death records

TY - JOUR

T1 - War-related excess mortality in The Netherlands, 1944–45: New estimates of famine- and non-famine-related deaths from national death records

AU - Ekamper, P.

AU - Bijwaard, G.E.

AU - van Poppel, F.W.A.

AU - Lumey, L.H.

PY - 2017/4

Y1 - 2017/4

N2 - Despite there being several estimates for famine-related deaths in the west of The Netherlands during the last stage of World War II, no such information exists for war-related excess mortality among the civilian population from other areas of the country. Previously unavailable data files from Statistics Netherlands allow researchers to estimate the number of war-related excess deaths during the last stage of the war in the whole country. This study uses a seasonal-adjusted mortality model combined with a difference-in-difference approach to estimate the number of excess deaths in the period between January 1944 and July 1945 at a total of close to 91,000 (75%) excess deaths. Almost half of all war-related excess mortality during the last year of the war occurred outside the west.

AB - Despite there being several estimates for famine-related deaths in the west of The Netherlands during the last stage of World War II, no such information exists for war-related excess mortality among the civilian population from other areas of the country. Previously unavailable data files from Statistics Netherlands allow researchers to estimate the number of war-related excess deaths during the last stage of the war in the whole country. This study uses a seasonal-adjusted mortality model combined with a difference-in-difference approach to estimate the number of excess deaths in the period between January 1944 and July 1945 at a total of close to 91,000 (75%) excess deaths. Almost half of all war-related excess mortality during the last year of the war occurred outside the west.

KW - ssci

KW - excess mortality

KW - famine

KW - estimation

KW - World War II

KW - The Netherlands

U2 - 10.1080/01615440.2017.1285260

DO - 10.1080/01615440.2017.1285260

M3 - Article

SN - 0161-5440

VL - 50

SP - 113

EP - 128

JO - Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History

JF - Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History

IS - 2

ER -