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Deaths from Covid-19. By sex. Provinces 2022
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Covid-19, virus identified 3,670 484 440 549 5,143 31,606 16.3
Men 2,002 260 243 269 2,774 16,708 16.6
Women 1,668 224 197 280 2,369 14,898 15.9
Covid-19, virus not identified (suspected) 13 1 0 1 15 66 22.7
Men 4 0 0 0 4 35 11.4
Women 9 1 0 1 11 31 35.5
Total 3,683 485 440 550 5,158 31,672 16.3
Men 2,006 260 243 269 2,778 16,743 16.6
Women 1,677 225 197 281 2,380 14,929 15.9
Source: INE. Death Statistic according to Cause of Death.
Note: Deaths attributed to Covid-19, virus identified and Covid-19, virus not identified (ICD-10 codes UO7.1 and UO7.2).

Last update: December 19, 2023.

Methodological note

Methodological aspects

The Death statistics according to cause of death from Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), provide annual information on deaths according to the basic cause of death following the criteria of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) of the World Health Organization (WHO). The 10th revision of this classification has been used since 1999.

These are harmonised European statistics in accordance with Commission Regulation (EU) No. 328/2011 of 5 April 2011, as regards statistics on causes of death.

The original source of the data is the unified Medical Death Certificate/Statistical Death Bulletin, with which the death is registered in the Civil Registry. In the case of deaths within the first 24 hours of life, the information from the Medical Death Certificate is supplemented by information from the Statistical Birth Bulletin. In the case of deaths where the law intervenes, the source of information is the Statistical Legal Death Bulletin completed by the courts or the information provided directly by the Institutes of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences.

In March 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) added two new codes to the current International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10): UO7.1"COVID-19, virus identified", to characterise deaths in which the victim was identified as having this pathology, and UO7.2"COVID-19, virus not identified" (suspected), to refer to deaths in which the virus could not be identified in the deceased, but the physician suspected that he/she might have it, as he/she showed symptoms compatible with the disease.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".