COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country

This article contains the current number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths per population 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.

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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

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 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

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

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Updated May 18, 2023.
COVID-19 pandemic cases and mortality by country[11]
Country Deaths / million Deaths Cases
World[lower-alpha 1] 869 6,932,578 766,440,032
Peru 6,476 220,516 4,505,220
Bulgaria 5,655 38,356 1,306,103
Bosnia and Herzegovina 5,055 16,346 402,918
Hungary 4,893 48,775 2,202,179
North Macedonia 4,622 9,677 348,281
Georgia 4,558 17,070 1,842,046
Croatia 4,523 18,230 1,273,508
Montenegro 4,477 2,808 289,292
Slovenia 4,395 9,317 1,343,721
Czech Republic 4,077 42,789 4,641,431
Slovakia 3,750 21,167 1,866,745
San Marino 3,710 125 24,247
Moldova 3,702 12,118 620,519
Greece 3,549 36,863 6,044,517
Lithuania 3,517 9,673 1,319,639
Romania 3,466 68,143 3,399,977
Gibraltar 3,458 113 20,550
Latvia 3,436 6,360 977,848
United Kingdom 3,337 225,324 24,603,076
United States 3,331 1,127,152 103,436,829
Brazil 3,260 702,116 37,511,921
Italy 3,219 190,080 25,828,252
Armenia 3,146 8,749 449,148
Chile 3,133 61,437 5,285,311
Poland 3,000 119,590 6,515,812
Martinique 2,993 1,100 229,900
Belgium 2,942 34,298 4,797,108
Paraguay 2,931 19,880 735,759
Trinidad and Tobago 2,867 4,390 191,496
Argentina 2,866 130,472 10,044,957
Ukraine 2,827 112,271 5,544,969
Russia 2,755 398,736 22,900,755
Colombia 2,751 142,727 6,365,994
European Union[lower-alpha 2] 2,735 1,231,494 184,065,400
Aruba 2,705 288 44,180
Serbia 2,625 18,040 2,538,899
Mexico 2,619 334,013 7,603,871
Portugal 2,596 26,668 5,584,388
Bermuda 2,569 165 18,860
Guadeloupe 2,569 1,017 202,653
Spain 2,543 120,964 13,845,825
France 2,526 163,279 38,989,402
Austria 2,514 22,478 6,072,229
Guam 2,404 413 51,345
Tunisia 2,379 29,407 1,153,063
Sweden 2,290 24,166 2,708,122
Saint Lucia 2,273 409 30,052
Suriname 2,271 1,404 82,495
Estonia 2,263 3,001 618,608
Uruguay 2,227 7,625 1,037,893
Liechtenstein 2,210 87 21,468
French Polynesia 2,118 649 78,545
Barbados 2,105 593 107,794
Germany 2,085 173,834 38,418,899
Sint Maarten 2,081 92 11,030
Bahamas 2,058 844 38,084
British Virgin Islands 2,042 64 7,305
Ecuador 2,000 36,019 1,061,766
Andorra 1,991 159 48,015
Lebanon 1,988 10,914 1,237,556
Panama 1,955 8,622 1,037,978
Luxembourg 1,902 1,232 319,959
Grenada 1,897 238 19,693
Monaco 1,836 67 16,771
Bolivia 1,830 22,382 1,197,983
Puerto Rico 1,818 5,915 1,119,959
Montserrat 1,812 8 1,403
Costa Rica 1,807 9,366 1,230,552
Kosovo 1,798 3,206 273,881
Hong Kong 1,798 13,466 2,876,106
Republic of Ireland 1,772 8,905 1,711,233
Finland 1,713 9,492 1,477,021
South Africa 1,712 102,595 4,072,533
Belize 1,697 688 70,782
Iran 1,651 146,204 7,610,676
Seychelles 1,605 172 50,937
Guyana 1,604 1,298 73,207
Switzerland 1,602 14,008 4,404,327
Namibia 1,593 4,091 171,310
Curaçao 1,579 302 45,812
Malta 1,565 835 118,631
Antigua and Barbuda 1,556 146 9,106
Cyprus 1,522 1,364 660,854
Caribbean Netherlands 1,515 41 11,885
Denmark 1,469 8,643 3,413,017
Jersey 1,453 161 66,391
Collectivity of Saint Martin 1,445 46 12,300
Isle of Man 1,372 116 38,008
Canada 1,360 52,301 4,669,364
French Guiana 1,356 413 98,041
Israel 1,323 12,509 4,824,551
United States Virgin Islands 1,316 131 24,994
Netherlands 1,309 22,992 8,610,372
Albania 1,267 3,604 334,090
Jordan 1,251 14,122 1,746,997
Jamaica 1,250 3,536 154,874
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1,192 124 9,631
Turkey 1,188 101,419 17,004,677
Eswatini 1,185 1,425 74,670
Guatemala 1,131 20,199 1,250,268
Malaysia 1,091 37,028 5,079,436
Palestine 1,087 5,708 703,228
New Caledonia 1,082 314 80,058
Honduras 1,065 11,114 472,594
Botswana 1,063 2,797 329,862
Guernsey 1,057 67 35,326
Bahrain 1,043 1,536 696,614
Dominica 1,017 74 15,760
Oman 1,011 4,628 399,449
Norway 1,011 5,495 1,484,030
Azerbaijan 991 10,268 831,659
Kazakhstan 983 19,072 1,502,857
Saint Kitts and Nevis 964 46 6,600
Fiji 949 883 68,921
Réunion 945 921 494,595
Libya 944 6,437 507,253
Turks and Caicos Islands 831 38 6,588
Northern Mariana Islands 827 41 13,872
Mauritius 808 1,050 304,233
Australia 785 20,553 11,299,954
Sri Lanka 772 16,856 672,317
American Samoa 767 34 8,331
Cuba 760 8,530 1,113,594
Anguilla 755 12 3,904
Belarus 746 7,118 994,037
Taiwan 739 17,672 9,970,937
Cabo Verde 697 414 63,779
Iceland 697 260 209,191
South Korea 667 34,610 31,415,280
El Salvador 667 4,230 201,785
Mongolia 628 2,136 1,008,265
Wallis and Futuna 603 7 3,427
Japan 602 74,694 33,803,572
Kuwait 602 2,570 665,885
Maldives 599 314 186,589
Indonesia 586 161,646 6,799,760
Philippines 575 66,453 4,115,202
Mayotte 573 187 42,027
Iraq 570 25,375 2,465,545
Federated States of Micronesia 569 65 26,453
New Zealand 538 2,792 2,282,861
Cayman Islands 538 37 31,472
Faroe Islands 527 28 34,658
Palau 497 9 6,000
Thailand 474 33,989 4,736,356
Saint Barthélemy 454 5 5,486
Kyrgyzstan 451 2,991 206,888
Vietnam 439 43,201 11,590,617
Morocco 435 16,297 1,274,180
Marshall Islands 408 17 16,081
Nepal 393 12,031 1,003,260
Dominican Republic 390 4,384 661,103
India 375 531,794 44,983,152
Greenland 371 21 11,971
Myanmar 359 19,494 637,483
Brunei 356 160 299,505
Sao Tome and Principe 351 80 6,575
Zimbabwe 348 5,690 264,848
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 339 2 3,426
Lesotho 306 706 34,490
Singapore 305 1,722 2,414,394
Saudi Arabia 264 9,646 841,469
Qatar 256 690 510,596
United Arab Emirates 248 2,349 1,065,607
Egypt 223 24,830 516,023
Solomon Islands 211 153 24,575
Mauritania 210 997 63,663
Venezuela 206 5,856 552,695
Zambia 202 4,058 343,995
Afghanistan 192 7,908 218,720
Comoros 191 160 9,109
Kiribati 182 24 5,025
Cambodia 182 3,056 138,736
Macau 174 121 3,514
Bangladesh 172 29,446 2,038,539
Djibouti 168 189 15,690
Algeria 153 6,881 271,817
Syria 142 3,163 57,423
Samoa 139 31 16,763
Gambia 137 372 12,626
Malawi 131 2,686 88,638
Pakistan 129 30,656 1,580,631
Gabon 128 307 48,992
Cook Islands 117 2 7,079
Senegal 113 1,971 88,997
Tonga 112 12 16,817
Equatorial Guinea 109 183 17,130
Sudan 107 5,046 63,993
Rwanda 106 1,468 133,194
Kenya 105 5,688 343,074
Timor-Leste 102 138 23,443
Laos 89 671 218,101
China[lower-alpha 3] 84 121,073 99,256,991
Guinea-Bissau 84 177 9,614
Nauru 78 1 5,393
Somalia 77 1,361 27,334
Uganda 76 3,632 170,775
Haiti 74 860 34,228
Cameroon 70 1,972 125,036
Mozambique 68 2,243 233,417
Papua New Guinea 66 670 46,864
Republic of the Congo 65 389 25,195
Yemen 64 2,159 11,945
Ethiopia 61 7,574 500,871
Liberia 55 294 8,090
Angola 54 1,934 105,384
Madagascar 48 1,424 68,266
Uzbekistan 47 1,637 253,526
Ghana 43 1,462 171,653
Vanuatu 42 14 12,016
Nicaragua 35 245 15,713
Guinea 33 468 38,563
Mali 32 743 33,147
Togo 32 290 39,491
Ivory Coast 29 834 88,330
Eritrea 27 103 10,189
Bhutan 26 21 62,668
Central African Republic 20 113 15,367
Burkina Faso 17 396 22,056
Democratic Republic of the Congo 14 1,467 96,652
Sierra Leone 14 125 7,762
Nigeria 14 3,155 266,675
Tanzania 12 846 43,078
South Sudan 12 138 18,368
Tajikistan 12 125 17,786
Benin 12 163 28,014
Niger 12 315 9,513
Chad 10 194 7,698
Burundi 1 15 53,749
North Korea 0 6 1
Vatican City — 0 26
Turkmenistan — 0 0
Pitcairn Islands — — 4
Falkland Islands — — 1,923
Tuvalu — — 2,779
Tokelau — 0 5
Niue — — 801
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha — — 2,166
  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

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

See date at top of map.

See also

Notes
  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. "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
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  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.
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  12. World map of cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people. From Our World in Data.
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