Method: We reviewed mortuary registers in Benin-city from 2017 to 2020. A list of all mortuaries in Benin-city operating for at least a year was obtained from the Department of Medical Services, Edo State Ministry of Health. We captured other mortuaries not listed through snowball sampling technique. A 1-paged form was used to extract data from the mortuaries and define excess mortality. We analyzed the data and determined excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2017 to 2020 by establishing a baseline level for expected mortality and compared it with observed mortality. We computed the uncertainties in our estimate at the 95% confidence level.