Published paper on insurance claims pegs excess deaths in 2020 & 2021 at 4.7mn

A new paper based on insurance policy claims data estimates 0.56 million excess deaths in India in 2020 and 4.15 million excess deaths in 2021, or a total of 4.71 million excess deaths in the pandemic years. The calculations in the paper are based on death claims settled by all life insurers as reported by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority till March 2021, death claims settled by LIC in April-December 2021, and CRS data on death registration in India during 2017-20.