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Kindergruppe hält eine Weltkugel (refer to: World Population Day: End of Demographic and Health Survey threatens sustainable development worldwide) | Source: © Alistair Berg via Getty Images

Press releaseWorld Population Day: End of Demographic and Health Survey threatens sustainable development worldwide

Cuts in US development funding threaten knowledge about the global population and progress in global health.

Journal ArticlesEurope’s COVID-19 death toll in 2020 and 2021: stark regional differences

Bonnet, Florian; Grigoriev, Pavel; Sauerberg, Markus; Alliger, Ina; Mühlichen, Michael; Camarda, Carlo-Giovanni (2024)

N-IUSSP September 2, 2024: 1–5

Europe was hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. While its effects at national level are now well known, intranational differences have been less frequently investigated. The Authors fill this knowledge gap and show that considerable heterogeneity exists at regional level, even within the same country.