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But the worst in Northern Europe, by far.

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Which metrics are you using?

Deaths attributed to Covid, or excess mortality in general, take your pick.

For example:

Sweden:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-deat...

Norway:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-deat...

UK is worse, Belgium is worse.

Being German, I don't consider these countries part of Northern Europe. While the UN might put the UK there (but not Belgium), the way I got taught the terminology, the UK would belong to Nordwesteuropa as a sub-region of Westeuropa, whereas Nordeuropa consists of the Nordics (and maybe the Baltics).

Cf https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Grossgli...

You can definitely consider Scotland part of Northern Europe.

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