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.

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 October 24, 2023.

COVID-19 pandemic cases and mortality by country[11]
Country	Deaths / million	Deaths	Cases
World[lower-alpha 1]	874	6,972,139	771,407,061
Peru	6,511	221,704	4,520,727
Bulgaria	5,664	38,414	1,302,188
Bosnia and Herzegovina	5,058	16,357	403,203
Hungary	4,897	48,815	2,207,969
North Macedonia	4,750	9,946	349,104
Georgia	4,575	17,132	1,855,289
Croatia	4,558	18,374	1,275,762
Slovenia	4,456	9,448	1,345,384
Montenegro	4,232	2,654	251,280
Czech Republic	4,086	42,884	4,657,581
Latvia	3,989	7,384	976,316
Slovakia	3,750	21,167	1,867,647
San Marino	3,739	126	24,697
Moldova	3,705	12,128	625,153
Greece	3,617	37,572	5,405,742
Lithuania	3,533	9,718	1,333,228
Romania	3,479	68,409	3,478,091
Gibraltar	3,458	113	20,550
United Kingdom	3,412	230,383	24,779,150
United States	3,360	1,136,920	103,436,829
Brazil	3,272	704,659	37,721,749
Italy	3,252	192,013	26,168,412
Armenia	3,151	8,762	450,334
Chile	3,142	61,607	5,288,843
Martinique	3,003	1,104	230,354
Poland	3,002	119,655	6,525,385
Paraguay	2,946	19,978	735,897
Belgium	2,946	34,339	4,817,196
Trinidad and Tobago	2,867	4,390	191,496
Argentina	2,866	130,472	10,054,576
Ukraine	2,768	109,918	5,520,483
European Union[lower-alpha 2]	2,766	1,245,398	184,210,531
Russia	2,764	400,102	23,061,960
Colombia	2,755	142,942	6,382,432
Aruba	2,742	292	44,224
Portugal	2,670	27,424	5,621,015
Serbia	2,627	18,057	2,560,024
Mexico	2,625	334,699	7,692,397
France	2,599	167,985	38,997,490
Guadeloupe	2,579	1,021	203,235
Bermuda	2,569	165	18,860
Spain	2,562	121,852	13,980,340
Austria	2,520	22,534	6,081,287
Guam	2,427	417	52,032
Tunisia	2,381	29,423	1,153,361
Sweden	2,360	24,902	2,718,433
Saint Lucia	2,279	410	30,147
Suriname	2,278	1,408	82,588
Uruguay	2,230	7,634	1,039,238
Liechtenstein	2,210	87	21,497
Barbados	2,201	620	110,074
Estonia	2,188	2,902	602,187
French Polynesia	2,118	649	78,642
Germany	2,098	174,979	38,437,756
Sint Maarten	2,081	92	11,051
Bahamas	2,058	844	38,084
British Virgin Islands	2,042	64	7,305
Ecuador	2,002	36,043	1,069,139
Lebanon	1,994	10,947	1,239,904
Andorra	1,991	159	48,015
Panama	1,962	8,654	1,047,587
Grenada	1,897	238	19,693
Finland	1,862	10,321	1,487,090
Republic of Ireland	1,841	9,251	1,722,546
Monaco	1,836	67	17,049
Bolivia	1,832	22,404	1,209,081
Puerto Rico	1,825	5,938	1,252,713
Costa Rica	1,819	9,428	1,238,884
Montserrat	1,812	8	1,403
Kosovo	1,801	3,211	274,247
Hong Kong	1,798	13,466	2,876,106
South Africa	1,712	102,595	4,072,533
Belize	1,697	688	71,060
Iran	1,654	146,480	7,619,981
Malta	1,653	882	120,422
Switzerland	1,609	14,065	4,415,674
Guyana	1,606	1,299	73,388
Seychelles	1,605	172	50,937
Namibia	1,597	4,100	172,121
Curaçao	1,595	305	45,883
Antigua and Barbuda	1,556	146	9,106
Luxembourg	1,544	1,000	384,378
Cyprus	1,522	1,364	660,854
Caribbean Netherlands	1,515	41	11,922
Denmark	1,500	8,824	3,417,017
Jersey	1,453	161	66,391
Collectivity of Saint Martin	1,445	46	12,324
Canada	1,385	53,297	4,716,205
Isle of Man	1,372	116	38,008
French Guiana	1,356	413	98,041
Israel	1,343	12,697	4,840,714
United States Virgin Islands	1,326	132	25,389
Netherlands	1,308	22,986	8,618,815
Jamaica	1,276	3,610	156,414
Albania	1,267	3,604	334,090
Jordan	1,251	14,122	1,746,997
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1,192	124	9,644
Turkey	1,188	101,419	17,004,677
Eswatini	1,187	1,427	75,052
Guatemala	1,134	20,235	1,271,070
Malaysia	1,095	37,195	5,130,847
Palestine	1,087	5,708	703,228
New Caledonia	1,082	314	80,064
Honduras	1,066	11,127	474,587
Botswana	1,064	2,800	330,298
Guernsey	1,057	67	35,326
Norway	1,054	5,732	1,489,459
Bahrain	1,043	1,536	696,614
Dominica	1,017	74	15,798
Oman	1,011	4,628	399,449
Azerbaijan	997	10,337	833,550
Kazakhstan	983	19,072	1,502,857
Saint Kitts and Nevis	964	46	6,607
Fiji	951	885	69,047
Réunion	945	921	494,595
Libya	944	6,437	507,269
Australia	885	23,188	11,618,144
Turks and Caicos Islands	852	39	6,630
Northern Mariana Islands	827	41	14,299
Mauritius	811	1,054	309,917
Sri Lanka	773	16,882	672,593
American Samoa	767	34	8,359
Cuba	760	8,530	1,115,103
Anguilla	755	12	3,904
Belarus	746	7,118	994,037
Taiwan	739	17,672	9,970,937
Cabo Verde	699	415	64,401
South Korea	693	35,934	34,571,873
Wallis and Futuna	689	8	3,550
Mongolia	672	2,284	1,011,170
El Salvador	667	4,230	201,808
New Zealand	651	3,376	2,390,777
Maldives	603	316	186,694
Japan	602	74,694	33,803,572
Kuwait	602	2,570	666,432
Indonesia	587	161,918	6,813,429
Philippines	577	66,702	4,115,714
Mayotte	573	187	42,027
Iraq	570	25,375	2,465,545
Federated States of Micronesia	569	65	26,547
Cayman Islands	538	37	31,472
Faroe Islands	527	28	34,658
Iceland	498	186	209,142
Palau	497	9	6,243
Thailand	480	34,482	4,757,728
Saint Barthélemy	454	5	5,507
Vietnam	440	43,206	11,623,987
Morocco	435	16,297	1,277,082
Marshall Islands	408	17	16,138
Nepal	393	12,031	1,003,447
Dominican Republic	390	4,384	667,074
India	375	532,037	44,999,588
Greenland	371	21	11,971
Brunei	363	163	311,905
Myanmar	359	19,494	641,324
Sao Tome and Principe	351	80	6,599
Zimbabwe	350	5,718	265,808
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	339	2	3,426
Singapore	332	1,872	2,626,395
Lesotho	307	709	35,836
Saudi Arabia	264	9,646	841,469
Qatar	256	690	514,524
United Arab Emirates	248	2,349	1,067,030
Egypt	223	24,830	516,023
Solomon Islands	211	153	21,611
Mauritania	210	997	63,774
Venezuela	206	5,856	552,695
Zambia	203	4,069	349,287
Afghanistan	193	7,952	226,816
Comoros	191	160	9,109
Kiribati	182	24	5,085
Cambodia	182	3,056	138,941
Macau	174	121	3,514
Bangladesh	172	29,477	2,045,843
Djibouti	168	189	15,690
Kyrgyzstan	154	1,024	88,889
Algeria	153	6,881	271,945
Syria	142	3,163	57,423
Samoa	139	31	16,778
Gambia	137	372	12,626
Malawi	131	2,686	88,986
Pakistan	129	30,656	1,580,631
Gabon	128	307	48,992
Cook Islands	117	2	7,168
Senegal	113	1,971	89,022
Tonga	112	12	16,839
Equatorial Guinea	109	183	17,130
Sudan	107	5,046	63,993
Rwanda	106	1,468	133,194
Kenya	105	5,689	343,999
Timor-Leste	102	138	23,460
Laos	89	671	218,876
Tuvalu	88	1	2,943
China[lower-alpha 3]	85	121,742	99,315,684
Guinea-Bissau	84	177	9,614
Nauru	78	1	5,393
Somalia	77	1,361	27,334
Uganda	76	3,632	171,871
Haiti	74	860	34,368
Cameroon	70	1,974	125,090
Mozambique	68	2,249	233,654
Papua New Guinea	66	670	46,864
Republic of the Congo	65	389	25,196
Yemen	64	2,159	11,945
Ethiopia	61	7,574	501,060
Liberia	55	294	7,930
Angola	54	1,936	105,972
Madagascar	48	1,425	68,350
Ghana	43	1,462	171,653
Vanuatu	42	14	12,019
Nicaragua	35	245	16,050
Guinea	33	468	38,563
Mali	32	743	33,158
Togo	32	290	39,524
Ivory Coast	29	835	88,338
Uzbekistan	29	1,016	174,123
Eritrea	27	103	10,189
Bhutan	26	21	62,697
Central African Republic	20	113	15,367
Burkina Faso	17	396	22,056
Democratic Republic of the Congo	14	1,468	99,181
Sierra Leone	14	125	7,766
Nigeria	14	3,155	267,146
Tanzania	12	846	43,078
South Sudan	12	138	18,368
Tajikistan	12	125	17,786
Benin	12	163	28,036
Niger	12	315	9,515
Chad	10	194	7,698
Burundi	1	15	54,366
North Korea	0	6	1
Pitcairn Islands	—	—	4
Falkland Islands	—	—	1,923
Niue	—	—	887
Turkmenistan	—	0	0
Vatican City	—	0	26
Tokelau	—	0	80
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	—	—	2,166
Countries which do not report data for a column are not included in that column's world total. 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. 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.

Notes

The table this note applies to is updated daily by a bot. For more info see Template:COVID-19 data/Cite.
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."
"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.
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

"Demographic Trends of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the US reported to CDC". 2021-04-27.
John Newton (12 August 2020). "Behind the headlines: Counting COVID-19 deaths". UK Health Security Agency. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
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
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.
Aravindan, John Geddie (18 September 2020). "Why is Singapore's COVID-19 death rate the world's lowest". Reuters.
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.
Agence France-Presse (December 28, 2020). "Russia admits to world's third-worst Covid-19 death toll". The Guardian.
"COVID-19 Data Explorer". Our World in Data.
"CBS: afgelopen jaar ruim 20.000 coronadoden". nos.nl (in Dutch). 7 April 2021.
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.
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 2023-10-24.
World map of cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people. From Our World in Data.

External links

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[15] Countries which do not report data for a column are not included in that column's world total.

[16] 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.

[17] Does not include special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau) or Taiwan.

[bot-note-11] The table this note applies to is updated daily by a bot. For more info see Template:COVID-19 data/Cite.

[OWID-JHU-12] 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."

[CSSE-13] "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.

[OWID-notes-19] 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.

[1] "Demographic Trends of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the US reported to CDC". 2021-04-27.

[UKHSA2020-08-12a-2] John Newton (12 August 2020). "Behind the headlines: Counting COVID-19 deaths". UK Health Security Agency. Retrieved 26 January 2020.

[Verity2020-03-30a-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

[Verity2020-03-30b-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.

[ourworldindata.org-8] "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.

[Template:COVID-19_data-14] 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 2023-10-24.

[cumulative-18] World map of cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people. From Our World in Data.