From the PSA Data Dropped on 1st of October, Covering Jan to June 2022 as of 31 July 2022, the Philippines Has NO EXCESS DEATHS in 2022. Birth Rates are Close to 2021 Rates for Jan to March 2022.

After mass excess deaths in 2021 (+43.2% compared to 2020), death rates in the Philippines are apparently completely normal for January to April 2022. All data for 2021 and 2022 is still preliminary.

Philippines Statistics Authority dropped updated vital statistics covering the period from January to June 2022, as of 31st July 2022 on 1st of October 2022. It should be noted that the data for January to April 2022, is apparently relatively complete, while the data for May and June is clearly very incomplete (shown as dashed line in the provided figures).

Vital Statistics for January to June 2022, as of 31 July 2022.

Registered Live Births for January to March are similar to those registered in 2021. Registered births dropped off in April 2022, however, it is too early to determine whether this is a real drop off, or simply due to late registrations (birth registrations can be quite delayed).

After registered deaths in January 2022 being 16% above registered deaths in January 2021, registered deaths from February to April match recent historical levels from 2019 and 2020. The data for May and June is clearly still incomplete, which must be due to late registrations.

When deaths are broken down by region, every region shows pretty much the same pattern; slightly higher deaths in January followed by absolutely normal deaths from February to April 2022 in comparison to historical data from 2018 to 2020! Only BARMM deviates from this pattern, which could be due to late submission / registration of death data.

An absolutely amazing and incredible recovery from the excess deaths of 2021 and January 2022 for the Philippines is becoming apparent from the February 2022 through to April 2022 data!

As a special note, a truly normal pattern of deaths after the extreme excesses of 2021 would have been to see lower deaths in 2022. This is because all vulnerable persons had already died in 2021 (excess of over 265,000 persons who died prematurely vs. 2020), and deaths should stay low until a new vulnerable population has had time to build up! Perhaps we will start to see this in subsequent data drops!

Covid-19 Injections Uptake from January to June 2022

As of 30 December 2021, Philippines had had delivered 95.31 doses of covid-19 injection per 100 persons (43.58% with initial protocol). This had reached 135.10/100 persons by 30 June 2022 (62.21% with initial protocol), including children 5 years and older. That is an increase within the 6 months of nearly 40 doses / 100 persons, similar dose/person to what had been delivered from March to September of 2021 when most of that year’s 43.2% of excess deaths occurred.

It would appear that Philippines has been completely spared the excess deaths that are seen elsewhere in other heavily vaccinated countries! International scientists should take a special interest in the Philippines, her population, and health measures, to see what is different in this country compared to others.

Many people in the Philippines will attribute the reduced deaths in 2022 to the social distancing, masking, avoidance of face-to-face classes for students that have continued in this country since 2020, though 2021 and into the first half of 2022!

It will be very interesting to see the completed vital statistics data for 2022, with breakdowns by ages, when it is finally available (January of 2024).

Cause of Death Data for January to June 2022, as of 31 July 2022.

PSA also dropped Cause of Death data on 1st of October 2022, covering the same period.

The absolute death figures cannot be compared between years because 2021 has relatively complete data for January to June, whereas the 2022 data is clearly incomplete for May and June 2022.

Covid-19 infection with virus identified and virus unidentified dropped from 5th and 9th rank in 2021 to 8th and 18th rank in 2022.

Top 4 leading causes of death had the same ranking in both years; 1st - Ischaemic Heart Diseases (18.1% share increased to 18.5% share in 2022), 2nd - Cerebrovascular Diseases (10.1% share increased to 10.4% share in 2022), 3rd - Neoplasms (8.9% share increased to 9.9% share, an overall 11% increase in this COD), 4th - Diabetes Mellitus which stayed the same at 6.5% share in both years. As some additional notes, transport accidents and external causes increased their share of deaths (2.7% to 3.3%), as did conditions originating in the perinatal period (1.2 to 1.4%), and other direct obstetric deaths (0.1 to 0.2%), which is a doubling of normal rates. Malnutrition increased from 0.7 to 0.8%.

I will update vital statistics when the next data drop becomes available! My health is good, and I have not taken any of the new products!

The POPCOM did not yet provide any explanation for the 2021 excess death. Now that there are no excess deaths for 2022, perhaps I am out of a research job, and can just move on and stop obsessing about deaths! Nothing to see folks!