Mortality in France reached a “historically low” level in 2023, researchers looking at public health records have concluded. The trend is linked to the drop in Covid-19 deaths, and a return to trends before the pandemic.
After three years of elevated mortality linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, France's mortality rate fell to historic lows in 2023, according to reports published Tuesday by researchers from the French public health agency, the Inserm statistics institute, and the Health Ministry’s statistics office.
