Comment on the Mortality Rate some interesting points:

• It is common to read that to compare Mortalities between countries it is better to use the Mortality Rate than the Mortality itself, since it includes the size of each population and can compare them appropriately. This is true, but it must be taken into account that including the “population” factor, or more specifically the annual evolution of the annual population of a territory or a country, includes in itself other added concepts such as births as opposed to deaths as well as immigration as opposed to emigration. Elements that would require a more complex treatment and that we are not going to analyze in depth.

For this reason, we want to emphasize that the Total Mortality graphs for the study of Mortality itself seem more reliable for the long term than the Mortality Rate itself, which has these added concepts. In fact, as you can see in the graphs, the results of Mortality and Mortality Rate are usually very different, since they reflect these other concepts that we have mentioned.

• Another way of reading how the Mortality Rate works would be to understand that if the rate of mortality growth has a specific proportion to the rate of growth of the population of a country, the mortality rate would be neutral or constant over time. Therefore, the Mortality Rate also measures how the growth of mortality varies in relation to the growth of the population of a country.

• Somehow the study in terms of the Mortality Rate also makes the Mortality variations not appreciated so clearly, and the degree of detail obtained with the Mortality study is hardly reflected in the Rate itself. Mortality, at least in the long-term study.

Analysis of the overall graph of the Total Mortality Rate in relation to the Total Mortality Rate:

There will be people who are experts in the field who can get more out of these graphs than we can, but we will try to provide a brief conclusion or common sense reasoning:

Regarding Finland: We see that the Mortality Rate in Finland is quite lateral or neutral. Its population has grown somewhat, so it seems to indicate that it has a synchronized rhythm between mortality and population. In terms of mortality, on the contrary, Finland has just exceeded its previous annual maximum of 2018, so it is at all-time highs (of the period analyzed).

Regarding Norway: Norway's Mortality Rate has dropped since the early 1990s. Also since then, Total Mortality has declined as the country's population grows. In principle, it seems a fairly contained situation in relation to Total Mortality and Total Mortality Rate.

Regarding Lithuania: The upward graph of the Mortality Rate in Lithuania in comparison to Finland and Norway is surprising. We believe that this may be due to the fact that there has been a significant emigration of young people from the country since the early 1990s that has led to negative annual population growth (see graph of Population of Lithuania), following the older population dying at a normal rate That is why the population is reduced, and the Mortality Rate is triggered. In contrast, we see in its corresponding graph that the Total Mortality of Lithuania is contained for the moment (below its previous maximums), unlike in Finland.