Between January 1 and March 31 average of 373 people died per day
The first three months of 2025 have seen a daily ‘death average’ only topped by the worst months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Between January 1 and March 31, 33,543 people died – an average of 373 per day.
One has to go back to the first three months of 2021 to find the same period with more deaths (42,058, or an average of 467 per month).
According to reports, just March alone saw more daily deaths than have been registered since 2005: nearly all of them in elderly age groups. Eighty per cent of the registered figures relate to over-75s. As has been explained many times, Portugal has a high number of elderly people, many of them living in reduced circumstances. This winter has been unusually wet, and therefore issues with humidity etc., will have been exacerbated.
The three month balance has been cited by Correio da Manhã tabloid, referring to SICO/ the national portal for ‘vigilance of mortality’. SICO classifies the vast majority of the deaths as “natural”, albeit every day there appear to be some 30-50 deaths that are described as “subject to investigation”.
Breaking deaths down into areas sees the majority in Lisbon and Porto.
Source: Correio da Manhã
