Cumulative incidence of Covid-19 deaths in France: a tentative analysis at département level

Hugues Lagrange (1)

1 OSC - Observatoire sociologique du changement (Sciences Po, CNRS)

On both sides of the Atlantic, in Anglo-Saxon countries, the issue of excess mortality due to Covid-19 among members of minorities has emerged as a central social justice issue. Outside the Anglo-Saxon countries, where race and ethnicity are generally recorded, it is difficult to address this issue. However, in France, data for the period up to the end of confinement, mentioning country of birth and place of death, from "état-civil" files, allow comparisons to be made on the determinants of the severity of Covid-19 integrating ethnicity. Regression analyses based on the difference in death counts between the spring of 2020 and the same period of previous years, show that the interweaving of health status, household size and ethnicity accurately reflects the disparities between departmental mortality rates due to Covid-19. People born in Black Africa clearly appear to be in a worse position than those born in the Maghreb, in Asian and European countries, not to mention the natives, in terms of risk of death.

Mots clés: Covid-19 epidemic; Health; Overcrowding; Ethnicity; Covid-19 epidemic

Domaines: Sociologie

Hugues Lagrange. Cumulative incidence of Covid-19 deaths in France: a tentative analysis at département level. 2020. ⟨halshs-02926447⟩