The amount of overall testing is one big factor. The more widespread the testing, the more likely the lower death rate because there will likely be more cases that are not as severe counted in the total case number. If a country is only testing people with more severe symptoms, the death rate will appear to be higher. The way deaths are counted varies by area. How many people died of something else while they were infected with CoVid-19? Some countries may not even list CoVid-19 as a cause of death and may instead list pneumonia. I heard that some states in the US do not test for coronavirus if the patient died at home. Some countries have a higher average age (Italy for example). REliability of reported data varies by country.Just some possible reasons.

The raw data is virtually useless.
No country really knows
1 how many people in total have caught the virus
2 how many in total have died because of the virus
3 how many survived the virus and have antibody immunity
4 How long lasting or effective is the antibodu immunity

for example... here in the UK only those actually entering hospital and some key workers are automatically tested for the virus ... and only deaths in hospital are counted as 'death by covid' despite some care homes etc being ravaged and experiencing multiple deaths.
Seems other countries, for political / morale / mass manipulation are using the data to propagate their own message to their own populace.

This is pointless data, and therefore meaningless. Unless every citizen in every country was tested we have no idea how many people anywhere actually have been infected. Some countries are fairly comprehensive in their testing, others have tested virtually nobody. Then there is the question of how early on the curve of the wave of the virus is your country...some countries such as China started as early as last December and are now well past the peak infection, whilst others are still in the early stages. It is only when this pandemic is over, and when all the analysts agree on a standard way of compiling data, will we be able get a true picture of the statistics.

SHOUT OUT to all you "death rate deniers", maybe this chart will wake you the hell up! Minimizing this thing is Not helping! Just today 2 people on here were babbling away about ".04% death rates, why worry?"

I live in the UK and come from Greece. Greece had it's first outbreak two to three weeks before the UK. Our death toll so far is less than a hundred people. Here in the UK, well check the table I can verify from this small sample that the differences are: better NHS in Greece (oh yes), a firm government that shut down everything very early on before the death toll was too high, banned social gatherings including the religious ones (that is a bold move for Greek standards), a very strict system in super markets where people enter one by one, with masks and gloves etc. On the other hand, in the UK the government was very slow in implementing half-measures talking about herd immunity etc. Now it's too late and we have around 800 deaths per day, a very sad number. Needles to say that all businesses are operating as usual... The NHS is unable to cope with the herd immunity attempt as people get infected uncontrollably... So sad. I have been living here since 2012 and love the country. Overall, it's a very well organized and nice country to be part of. It is the only time though I wish I were in Greece...

I love these tables! They contain the real data but not explanations. I could have hours of fun creating reasons why the numbers come out as they do:
countries where people hug each other upon meeting.
Countries where people live very close together;
Counties with large mountain ranges, etc., etc.

Hey, it would be more educational if we could see these data on a real map. We could use it to teach ourselves and our kids where all these countries are. That would be useful!

the disparity is because some countries responded quickly with testing and isolation, which helped them track the course of the disease and slow it down, and some countries said "it's a democrat [sic] hoax."

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Two most likely causes:

1. Many of the European countries have large elderly populations. This disease hits the old much harder than the young.
2. Different methods of testing in different countries, so in many countries a large number of cases go undiagnosed.

POVERTY, POVERTY. POVERTY, POVERTY.

Most of us do not see poverty on a regular basis. We do not travel into the neighborhoods that are impoverished on purpose. They are not part of our experience. We do not think about them. America is so rich with material goods that most of us automatically assume that everybody gets what they need. Some have more or better material goods, but we all have what we need.. WRONG.

Some of us work in impoverished communities. We see it daily. Here are things that those of us see that contributes to a higher incidence of Covid deaths are as follows:

1. Poverty means that one cannot afford heathly diets. Diets are based upon things that are less expensive and come in larger quantities. Most of these foods are low in nutrition, but high in carbohydrates. Meats are usually poorer cuts and tend to have more hormones, and antibiotics.
2. As a consequence of their diet there tends to be a greater incidence of diabetes, heart disease, and obesity.
3. Health care for this group is limited. Many are employed in industries that do not offer health care as part of the job benefits. Private health insurance is either too expensive, or what is affordable has very high copays or deductibles. Their alternative becomes the emergency room, which benefits nobody. On top of this they have fewer choices of doctors that will accept arrangements that this community can afgord.
4. Many of this community do not trust the government, especially under this Administration.
5. Economic stress from the above conditions add to the health issues.
6. Members of this community are the last to be offered tests, vaccines, and medical help. If the medical practioners become forced to prioritize health services during this pandemic, this community will be lowered to the lowest priority position.
7. This community are the least educated. This occurs for many reasons. Being less educated, they are not aware of the implications or opportunities that may exist. They are suspicious of suggestions they do not understand or are foreign to their realm of experience.

8. This community mostly finds employment in the service industries; health fields, essential transportation industries, grocery fields, etc. They are forced to work when others are able to "shelter in place". Therefore, they have an increased probability of contracting the virus.

Poverty is not always a matter of choice or hard work. Many people in this condition work two or three jobs, and are incredibly hard workers. Meritocracy and social vertical ascent is a myth for these people. Social stratification in society is normal. The way poverty is handled tells one how enlightened that society is.

So in closing, it is no surprise that there exists a disparity in Covid-19. White privilege and economic privilege allows a large part of the society to ignore, or otherwise overlook those in society that live in poverty.

What I see is the USA as having the most infections because we listen the least. This is also why we have the highest number of deaths. As for percent of deaths most of the rest of the world has a lower healthcare technology. We do not lead in healthcare but we have better technologies generally speaking.

This is just the fist wave!!!

Every Pandemic has has two to three waves of infection!

The 1917-1918 pandemic had two confirmed waves.

In 1917 there were only 1.5 Billion individuals on this planet!

It took 14 months to encircle this planet!!!

Now we have over 6.78 Billion individuals living on this planet!!!

It took less than four months to encircle this planet!!!

The same thing happen in 1917-1918 Pandemic the so called modern countries have high mortality, simply they were overwhelmed by shear numbers!!!

The Cities and Towns that instituted social distancing, shelter at home and use face masks had far fewer deaths!!!

Just like 1917-1918 Pandemic the governments and Healthcare systems were not prepared and overwhelmed!!!

The true lesson is we can never be fully prepared for the future, the future does not reveal the events to come, the planet is bigger than any thing we can throw at it!

We can not conquer nature, nature will always conquer us!!!

Where is the country Africa?
Yes I do know Africa is not a country

There are plenty of ways to skew the proportions. One is state misinformation or cover-ups (think China, Iran, N Korea). Another is how much you test - if you test a lot you will identify cases that would otherwise never have made it into the stats. Another is whether you test post mortem - people haven't stopped dying of regular pneumonia, so if you don't check for Covid-19 then they will not appear as a coronavirus death but if you do, then they might. Different health services have different practices - in the UK, for instance, you are not registered as a case unless you have been admitted to hospital, so if you die quietly at home you will not be included in the corona figures.

Italy, Spain have a large proportion of very old population. Some countries also did not get on the bandwagon on started the whole process. Some countries don’t take care of their population either. No health care for all,

One problem, at least in the U.S., is that if a person dies before they have been diagnosed, they are NOT counted in the tallies. In the U.S. we are still short on test kits and medical supplies needed to make a proper diagnosis (even if the Trump administration is doing their best to hide that).

Another problem is poor record keeping in many countries. The efforts are (mostly) being expended on keeping people from getting sick or helping those who are sick to get well. That takes so much effort, that keeping a proper count just isnt' a priority.

I suspect the countries with the highest death counts are keeping the best and most accurate records.

This is the state of our data, and it's pretty primitive. Rates per 100,000 for infection and death would be more revealing. So would the number of deaths at home that are actually due to covid-19. Last I heard from NY deaths at home were way up, and often the cause was never confirmed (makes some sense, they're already dead). Gathering good data is critical. We don't know the real breadth of the infection, true number of dead, or who has been infected and recovered or is an asymptomatic carrier. Little better than walking around blind without a cane.

It's all related to testing or in some cases under reporting. For example, the US is not testing many of the people who die and are not hospitalized due to a severe lack of testing kits despite what Trump tells on his daily lies, we have only tested about 1% of the population; so all these are not reported. Some countries, especially those ran by despots or tyrants like China, Russia and others, heavily under report deaths and even contagion cases for propaganda purposes. Like Trump tries to do here but there's free press, at least for now. These countries control everything, including internet, press, etcetera so whatever they decide to give you one must accept, take it or leave it. In some cases the death rate is low due to drastic actions by the governments since these found out this was an airborne flu type of epidemic. If you check google you will see that Obama started an international task force to combat potential pandemics like the Spanish flu. The countries that took these drastic actions have very low numbers in general, like Taiwan, New Zealand, etcetera. It also helps that these countries like many islands are precisely islands much easier to isolate (the term isolate comes from usland by the way). These are some of the reasons. And in some cases, having population that is scarce geographically speaking, like Canada for exanple, or in our case, states like Alaska, Montana, the Dakotas, etc. that have vast territory but sparse population with not hugely populated cities, also reduces the spread of contagion.

This may be a better place to get data [coronavirus.jhu.edu] you can see where in the cycle the people are, maybe the deaths relate to how many people were infected at once and the health care systems ability to deal with the crisis. The people who got infected old vs young how accurately is the country reporting the results, how many people are they testing? I believe in Sweden if you do not need hospital care then you are not tested you are told to stay at home isolate and treat yourself as needed. So they may only be testing the ones that come to hospital ie the one having problems and in the higher risk bracket. The number crunching can only come when this is over and final figures are in and then to compare it to all different factors. It is a complex problem that a simple table is not able to display.

The UK is only testing health workers and people who are hospitalised with symptoms. Hence the huge death rate.

This data set is nothing more than low IQ clickbait. The devil is in the details. I found no death statistics with granular detail.
Here is a good start. The US CDC Covid-19 death data.

[cdc.gov]

Maybe there are several strains of this virus and some strains are more deadly than others. Or maybe some countries are lying about the numbers....

Chart is now quite old; deaths in the USA are now in the 60 thousand range; Belgium, as a medically advanced country claims it counts undiagnosed Corona virus like cases which did not have medical testing, in order to be as complete as possible. In developing countries, the majority of virus deaths die without ever having seen a doctor. Many countries keep their statistics artificially low to avoid negative PR impact.There are many variables which must first be understood (and computerized in value) to draw any conclusions at this time.

The niumbers are skewed from the uncertainty of people actually dying from the virus.
Plus it was allowed to spread to make that possible. Anything else is just a waste of time, unless youre in position to change something.

Yes I can
I’m working on the frontlines of this mess

There are many reasons why top of my list would be age in relation to population density
Allegation of supplies
And most importantly unlimited testing in the community
Look at Germany and South Korea

Each state is differently reporting tests .... positives ....hospitalized ....recoveries sent home and deaths....rwo horrific examples S Carolina has no state crime laboratory to save money and not prove prisoners innocent of framed crimes....takes 5 days to get tested and know the results.....Iowa has state of the art crime lab 1000 tests per day capacity 24 hour results known