Flu epidemic shapes development of death figures at the start of the year

Wiesbaden – A flu epidemic in the first quarter of this year has impacted the number of deaths in Germany. Based on preliminary figures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) in Wiesbaden announced that there were more deaths in February and March than the average for 2021 and 2024, while in January the number was...

In the first quarter of 2025, 282,290 people died in Germany. Since the end of January 2025, the death figures have increased at the same time as a comparatively strong spread of respiratory diseases (“flu epidemic”) compared to the average figure of the four previous years, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) announced on Tuesday. At the beginning of the year, the death figures were initially well below the average figure for the comparat…