A total of 8,200 people died from coronavirus in 2022, taking the total number of Covid deaths in the Netherlands to 48,000, national statistics agency CBS said on Tuesday.

At the same time, more people died from of other causes, such as respiratory disease, but not from cancer, the CBS said. The figures are preliminary.

In total, 170,000 people died in the Netherlands last year, with cancers accounting for a stable 28% of deaths and heart and artery disease 23%.

Psychiatric and diseases of the nervous system, including dementia, accounted for 13% of deaths, up 10% on 2021. Some 8% died from respiratory disease – a rise of 27% on 2021.

Some 6% of people died from unnatural causes and 5% from Covid-19. Deaths from unnatural causes were also up 13%, largely due to falls, the CBS said.

The excess death rate was also high last year, with 14,500 more people dying than expected, a far higher total than the number of coronavirus-related deaths.

However, taking the pandemic as a whole into account, some 2,000 more people died from Covid-19 than the excess death rate over three years. This could be related to the 13-week flu epidemic last year, the CBS said.