Can we estimate crisis death tolls by subtracting total population estimates? A critical review and appraisal

BACKGROUND: In the absence of high-quality data, the death tolls of epidemics, conflicts, and disasters are often estimated using ad hoc methods. One understudied class of methods, which we term the growth rate discontinuity method (GRDM), estimates death tolls by projecting pre-crisis and post-cris...

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Main Authors: Hampton Gaddy, Maria Gargiulo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2025-04-01
Series:Demographic Research
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Online Access:https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/52/23
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