More than 879,000 Filipinos died in 2021 and this makes it the deadliest year in the Philippine’s history with the month of September last year recording a total of 119,758 deaths, which means that 3,992 Filipinos died daily in that month or almost three deaths per minute.
So far the country reports 146,137 deaths due to the deadly COVID-19 virus. Even before the pandemic hit the country, its PopCom has already noted a high excess mortalities due to health-related matters.
Among these issues are heart attacks, cerebrovascular disease or referred to as strokes, diabetes and hypertension PopCom says if deaths related to these illnesses are combined, they accounted for a total of 159,770 deaths in 2021.
