COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country

This article contains the number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths per population as of 3 June 2024, by country. It also has cumulative death totals by country. For these numbers over time see the tables, graphs, and maps at COVID-19 pandemic deaths and COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory.

This data is for entire populations, and does not reflect the differences in rates relative to different age groups. For example, in the United States as of 27 April 2021, the reported case fatality ratios were 0.015%, 0.15%, 2.3%, and 17% for the age groups 0–17, 18–49, 50–74, and 75 or over, respectively.[1]

Data reliability edit

Variation between testing programmes worldwide results in different ascertainment rates per country: not every SARS-CoV-2 infection, nor every COVID-19-related death, will be identified, while on the other hand some deaths may be wrongly attributed to COVID (for example if all suspected COVID deaths are counted as Covid deaths, as Belgium was doing in September 2020, or when for several months after April 2020, England reported all deaths after a positive COVID-19 test "in order to be sure not to underestimate the number of COVID-19 related deaths", while Scotland reported all deaths within 28 days of such a positive test).[2][3] Therefore, the true numbers of infections and deaths[clarification needed] will exceed the observed (confirmed) numbers everywhere, though the extent will vary by country.[4] These statistics are therefore less suitable for between-country comparisons. As deaths are easier to identify than infections (which are regularly asymptomatic), the true case fatality rate (CFR) is likely lower than the observed CFR.

Causes of variation in true CFRs between countries, include variations in age and overall health of the population, medical care, and classification of deaths.[5]

Excess mortality statistics provide a more reliable estimate of all COVID-19-related mortality during the pandemic, though they include both "direct COVID-19 and indirect, non-COVID-19 deaths".[6]They compare overall mortality with that of previous years, and as such also include the potentially vast number of deaths among people with unconfirmed COVID-19. Data from Russia illustrates how the true death rates from COVID-19 can be far higher than visible from confirmed COVID-19 deaths: in December 2020, based on overall excess mortality during the year, total COVID-19 deaths in Russia were estimated to be over 186,000,[7]while confirmed COVID-19 deaths were at 56,271.[8]For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020,[9] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered.[8] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022. WHO also said that the real numbers are far higher than the official tally because of unregistered deaths in countries without adequate reporting.[10]

Table of total cases, deaths, and death rates by country edit

Note: Table is automatically updated daily.[note 1] Data source is Our World in Data.[note 2][note 3]

Updated June 3, 2024.
COVID-19 pandemic cases and mortality by country[11]
CountryDeaths / millionDeathsCases
World[a]8837,049,617775,522,390
Peru6,485220,8314,524,748
Bulgaria5,70638,7001,329,313
Bosnia and Herzegovina5,06816,388403,643
Hungary4,92149,0512,230,419
North Macedonia4,7659,977350,591
Slovenia4,74310,0561,355,911
Croatia4,65218,7521,317,083
Georgia4,58017,1501,862,754
Montenegro4,2322,654251,280
Czech Republic4,14543,5034,759,418
Latvia4,0397,475977,765
Slovakia3,76121,2261,877,753
Greece3,75639,0135,634,857
San Marino3,73912625,292
Moldova3,73812,237635,666
Lithuania3,5659,8051,366,434
United States3,5111,187,771103,436,829
Romania3,49968,8033,528,866
Gibraltar3,45811320,550
United Kingdom3,438232,11224,929,992
Italy3,337197,01826,722,730
Brazil3,260702,11637,519,960
Chile3,19862,7055,400,274
Armenia3,1568,777451,831
Poland3,028120,7116,662,888
Martinique3,0031,104230,354
Belgium2,94634,3394,862,069
Paraguay2,93119,880735,759
Argentina2,875130,86010,132,025
Trinidad and Tobago2,8674,390191,496
European Union[b]2,8021,261,443185,641,885
Russia2,783402,87824,180,909
Ukraine2,768109,9205,531,685
Colombia2,751142,7276,385,568
Aruba2,74229244,224
Portugal2,74128,1605,644,144
Serbia2,62718,0572,583,470
Mexico2,627335,0117,709,747
France2,600168,09138,997,490
Sweden2,58727,2942,752,044
Guadeloupe2,5791,021203,235
Bermuda2,56916518,860
Spain2,562121,85213,980,340
Austria2,52022,5346,082,348
Guam2,43941952,287
Tunisia2,38129,4231,153,361
Saint Lucia2,27941030,252
Suriname2,2731,40582,496
Liechtenstein2,2618921,576
Estonia2,2602,998610,427
Uruguay2,2397,6641,041,229
French Polynesia2,12265079,302
Barbados2,105593110,680
Germany2,098174,97938,437,756
Sint Maarten2,0819211,051
Finland2,06911,4661,499,712
Bahamas2,06884838,577
British Virgin Islands2,042647,459
Ecuador2,00236,0491,076,184
Lebanon1,99410,9471,239,904
Andorra1,99115948,015
Panama1,9748,7061,044,357
Republic of Ireland1,9139,6131,736,596
Grenada1,89723819,693
Monaco1,8366717,181
Bolivia1,83122,3871,212,131
Puerto Rico1,8255,9381,252,713
Montserrat1,81281,403
Costa Rica1,8089,3681,230,653
Kosovo1,8023,212274,279
Hong Kong1,79813,4662,876,106
South Africa1,712102,5954,072,697
Malta1,698906121,454
Belize1,69768871,409
Iran1,658146,8377,627,863
Denmark1,6439,6673,435,018
Switzerland1,62314,1884,453,957
Cyprus1,6121,445691,247
Guyana1,6081,30174,126
Seychelles1,60517251,695
Namibia1,6004,108172,408
Curaçao1,59530545,883
Antigua and Barbuda1,5561469,106
Luxembourg1,5441,000391,429
Caribbean Netherlands1,5154111,922
Jersey1,45316166,391
Collectivity of Saint Martin1,4454612,324
Canada1,43155,0574,810,303
Isle of Man1,37211638,008
French Guiana1,35641398,041
Israel1,34412,7074,841,558
United States Virgin Islands1,32613225,389
Netherlands1,30822,9868,636,374
Jamaica1,2733,600156,833
Albania1,2683,605334,863
Jordan1,25114,1221,746,997
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1,1921249,674
Turkey1,188101,41917,004,714
Eswatini1,1871,42775,356
Guatemala1,13220,2161,250,358
Malaysia1,10037,3505,283,624
Palestine1,0875,708703,228
New Caledonia1,08231480,163
Honduras1,06511,114472,791
Botswana1,0642,801330,650
Guernsey1,0576735,326
Norway1,0545,7321,507,772
Bahrain1,0431,536696,614
Dominica1,0177416,047
Oman1,0114,628399,449
Azerbaijan99910,353835,410
Kazakhstan98319,0721,504,370
Saint Kitts and Nevis964466,607
Australia96425,23611,861,161
Fiji95188569,047
Réunion945921494,595
Libya9446,437507,269
Turks and Caicos Islands874406,754
Northern Mariana Islands8274114,689
Mauritius8231,070327,305
Wallis and Futuna77693,760
Sri Lanka77416,901672,763
New Zealand7724,0082,593,269
American Samoa767348,359
Cuba7608,5301,113,662
Anguilla755123,904
Belarus7467,118994,037
Taiwan73917,6729,970,937
Cabo Verde70341764,474
South Korea69335,93434,571,873
El Salvador6674,230201,866
Mongolia6282,1361,011,478
Maldives603316186,694
Japan60274,69433,803,572
Kuwait6022,570667,290
Indonesia588162,0586,829,029
Philippines57866,8644,140,383
Mayotte57318742,027
Iraq57025,3752,465,545
Federated States of Micronesia5696526,547
Palau552106,332
Cayman Islands5383731,472
Faroe Islands5272834,658
Iceland498186209,964
Thailand48334,6414,779,858
Saint Barthélemy45455,507
Vietnam44043,20611,624,000
Morocco43516,3051,279,115
Marshall Islands4081716,178
Brunei396178344,320
Nepal39312,0311,003,450
Dominican Republic3904,384661,103
India376533,61045,039,140
Greenland3712111,971
Myanmar35919,494642,339
Singapore3592,0243,006,155
Sao Tome and Principe351806,771
Zimbabwe3515,740266,362
Saint Pierre and Miquelon33923,426
Lesotho30770936,138
Solomon Islands27419925,954
Saudi Arabia2649,646841,469
Qatar256690514,524
United Arab Emirates2482,3491,067,030
Egypt22324,830516,023
Mauritania21099763,864
Venezuela2065,856552,695
Zambia2034,069349,644
Afghanistan1947,998235,214
Comoros1911609,109
Kiribati182245,085
Cambodia1823,056139,127
Macau1741213,514
Bangladesh17229,4952,050,243
Djibouti16818915,690
Kyrgyzstan1541,02488,953
Algeria1536,881272,028
Syria1423,16357,423
Samoa1393117,057
Gambia13737212,627
Malawi1312,68689,168
Pakistan12930,6561,580,631
Gabon12830749,051
Cook Islands11727,326
Senegal1131,97189,078
Tonga1121216,958
Equatorial Guinea10918317,130
Sudan1075,04663,993
Rwanda1061,468133,249
Kenya1055,689344,101
Timor-Leste10213823,460
Laos89671219,043
Tuvalu8812,943
China[c]85122,21599,357,895
Guinea-Bissau841779,614
Nauru7815,393
Somalia771,36127,334
Uganda763,632172,149
Haiti7486034,298
Cameroon701,974125,217
Mozambique682,252233,808
Papua New Guinea6667046,864
Republic of the Congo6538925,219
Yemen642,15911,945
Ethiopia617,574501,170
Liberia552947,930
Angola541,937107,451
Madagascar481,42768,535
Ghana431,462172,023
Vanuatu421412,019
Nicaragua3524516,146
Guinea3346838,572
Mali3274333,164
Togo3229039,530
Ivory Coast2983588,425
Uzbekistan291,016175,081
Eritrea2710310,189
Bhutan262162,697
Central African Republic2011315,440
Burkina Faso1740022,126
Democratic Republic of the Congo141,470100,615
Sierra Leone141257,836
Nigeria143,155267,188
South Sudan1314718,823
Tanzania1284643,226
Tajikistan1212517,786
Benin1216328,036
Niger123159,515
Chad101947,702
Burundi11554,569
North Korea061
Pitcairn Islands4
Falkland Islands1,923
Niue1,074
Turkmenistan00
Vatican City026
Tokelau080
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha2,166
  1. ^ Countries which do not report data for a column are not included in that column's world total.
  2. ^ Data on member states of the European Union are individually listed, but are also summed here for convenience. They are not double-counted in world totals.
  3. ^ Does not include special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau) or Taiwan.


Map of death rates edit

Total confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people by country:[12][note 3][note 4]

See date at top of map.

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ The table this note applies to is updated daily by a bot. For more info see Template:COVID-19 data/Cite.
  2. ^ Our World in Data (OWID). See Coronavirus Source Data for OWID sourcing info. Excerpt: "Deaths and cases: our data source. Our World in Data relies on data from Johns Hopkins University. ... JHU updates its data multiple times each day. This data is sourced from governments, national and subnational agencies across the world — a full list of data sources for each country is published on Johns Hopkins GitHub site. It also makes its data publicly available there."
  3. ^ a b "CSSEGISandData/COVID-19". GitHub. 5 August 2022. COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. The CSV files are downloaded via the "Raw" links. The "Raw" link doesn't show up until you click the csv file link. This opens into a GitHub page with the data and the "Raw" link. See How to Use our Data for more info and links. See: Pandemic Data Initiative. See more sourcing history and info.
  4. ^ Our World in Data (OWID) maps and graphs on cases and deaths. Click on the download tab to download the image. The table tab has a table of the exact data by country. The source tab says the data is from the COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. The image at the source is interactive and provides more detail. For example, for maps run your cursor over the color bar legend to see the countries that apply to that point in the legend. For graphs run your cursor over the graph for more info. See Coronavirus Source Data for more OWID sourcing info.

References edit

  1. ^ "Demographic Trends of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the US reported to CDC". 2021-04-27.
  2. ^ John Newton (12 August 2020). "Behind the headlines: Counting COVID-19 deaths". UK Health Security Agency. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  3. ^ Beaney, Thomas; Clarke, Jonathan M; Jain, Vageesh; Golestaneh, Amelia Kataria; Lyons, Gemma; Salman, David; Majeed, Azeem (2020). "Excess mortality: the gold standard in measuring the impact of COVID-19 worldwide?". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 113 (9): 329–334. doi:10.1177/0141076820956802. ISSN 0141-0768. PMC 7488823. PMID 32910871. Russia's case definition for a COVID-19 death, for example, relies solely on results from autopsy, unlike most European countries.6 Death must have been due directly to COVID-19, so it is not counted if a patient was found to have COVID-19 but it did not cause their death.6,7 This will lead to significant underreporting, especially as Russia has one of the highest numbers of COVID-19 cases worldwide and yet has a case fatality rate of only 1.7% as of 31 July 2020.3 Spain's definition requires a positive polymerase chain reaction or antibody test for COVID-19, with only hospital deaths included in the death count despite a significant number of deaths from COVID-19 in the community and care homes.8,9 Belgium, by contrast, has one of the broadest definitions for a COVID-19 death, including all suspected cases. Care home deaths in Belgium account for around half of all excess deaths, but only 26% of care home deaths were confirmed (rather than suspected) COVID-19,10 leading to possible overcounting relative to other countries.11
  4. ^ Verity, Robert (March 30, 2020). "Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019: a model-based analysis". The Lancet. Infectious Diseases. 20 (6): 669–677. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30243-7. PMC 7158570. PMID 32240634.
  5. ^ Aravindan, John Geddie (18 September 2020). "Why is Singapore's COVID-19 death rate the world's lowest". Reuters.
  6. ^ Beaney, Thomas; Clarke, Jonathan M; Jain, Vageesh; Golestaneh, Amelia Kataria; Lyons, Gemma; Salman, David; Majeed, Azeem (2020). "Excess mortality: the gold standard in measuring the impact of COVID-19 worldwide?". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 113 (9): 329–334. doi:10.1177/0141076820956802. ISSN 0141-0768. PMC 7488823. PMID 32910871. Under the assumption that the incidence of other diseases remains steady over time, then excess deaths can be viewed as those caused both directly and indirectly by COVID-19 and gives a summary measure of the 'whole system' impact. ... Despite this, when seeking to understand the full impact of deaths due to COVID-19 and explain why excess deaths vary, there is a need to distinguish the component parts – of direct COVID-19 and indirect, non-COVID-19 deaths.
  7. ^ Agence France-Presse (December 28, 2020). "Russia admits to world's third-worst Covid-19 death toll". The Guardian.
  8. ^ a b "COVID-19 Data Explorer". Our World in Data.
  9. ^ "CBS: afgelopen jaar ruim 20.000 coronadoden". nos.nl (in Dutch). 7 April 2021.
  10. ^ Rigby, Jennifer (2022-05-05). "Almost three times as many died as a result of COVID than officially reported - WHO". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-05-05.
  11. ^ Ritchie, Hannah; Mathieu, Edouard; Rodés-Guirao, Lucas; Appel, Cameron; Giattino, Charlie; Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban; Hasell, Joe; Macdonald, Bobbie; Beltekian, Diana; Dattani, Saloni; Roser, Max (2020–2022). "Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)". Our World in Data. Retrieved 2024-06-03.
  12. ^ World map of cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people. From Our World in Data.

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