Sitting and Typing

 this Sunday morning. Coffee by the bedside. Oh, I am in the spare bed. Did a quick run through the CBC on line sections. Pandemic, variants - ah no vaccination news b/c we ran out.

Yes, we rank 10 th or lower in per capita vaccinations. But we likely rank # 40 in per capita deaths.
The cold continues < or never stopped > its 12 F  and less w/ wind chill. The hi today is 24.

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An error : Canada ranks 48 th in deaths per million population

way below the U.S. at # 7

COVID-19 deaths worldwide per million population as of February 12, 2021, by country

Published by Raynor de Best, Feb 12, 2021

 Based on a comparison of coronavirus deaths in 200 countries relative to their population, Belgium had the most losses to COVID-19 up until February 12, 2021. As of the same date, the virus had infected over 107.8 million people worldwide, and the number of deaths had totaled more than 2.3 million. Note, however, that COVID-19 test rates can vary per country. Additionally, big differences show up between countries when combining the number of deaths against confirmed COVID-19 cases. The source seemingly does not differentiate between "the Wuhan strain" (2019-nCOV) of COVID-19 or "the South African mutation" (B.1.1.7) that appeared in the UK in late 2020.

The difficulties of death figures

This table aims to provide a complete picture on the topic, but it very much relies on data that has become more difficult to compare. As the coronavirus pandemic developed across the world, countries already used different methods to count fatalities, and they sometimes changed them during the course of the pandemic. On April 16, for example, the Chinese city of Wuhan added a 50 percent increase in their death figures to account for community deaths. These deaths occurred outside of hospitals and went unaccounted for so far. The state of New York did something similar two days before, revising their figures with 3,700 new deaths as they started to include “assumed” coronavirus victims. The United Kingdom started counting deaths in care homes and private households on April 29, adjusting their number with about 5,000 new deaths (which were corrected lowered again by the same amount on August 18). This makes an already difficult comparison even more difficult. Belgium, for example, counts suspected coronavirus deaths in their figures, whereas other countries have not done that (yet). This means two things. First, it could have a big impact on both current as well as future figures. On April 16 already, UK health experts stated that if their numbers were corrected for community deaths like in Wuhan, the UK number would change from 205 to “above 300”. This is exactly what happened two weeks later. Second, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly which countries already have “revised” numbers (like Belgium, Wuhan or New York) and which ones do not. One work-around could be to look at (freely accessible) timelines that track the reported daily increase of deaths in certain countries. Several of these are available on our platform, such as for Belgium, Italy and Sweden. A sudden large increase might be an indicator that the domestic sources changed their methodology.

Where are these numbers coming from?

The numbers shown here were collected by Johns Hopkins University, a source that manually checks the data with domestic health authorities. For the majority of countries, this is from national authorities. In some cases, like China, the United States, Canada or Australia, city reports or other various state authorities were consulted. In this statistic, these separately reported numbers were put together. For more information or other freely accessible content, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths worldwide per one million population as of February 12, 2021, by country

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	Confirmed cases (absolute)	Cases in last 7 days	Confirmed deaths (absolute)	Deaths in last 7 days	Daily increase (# deaths)	Population (in millions)	Deaths per million (total)	Deaths per million (last 7 days)
Belgium	733,100	11,668	21,551	256	39	11.48	1,876.6	22.29
Slovenia	177,140	4,841	3,677	82	10	2.09	1,761.06	39.27
United Kingdom¹	3,986,934	86,698	115,310	4,259	676	66.83	1,725.31	63.72
Czechia	1,064,952	43,475	17,772	796	130	10.67	1,665.65	74.6
Italy	2,683,403	71,744	92,729	2,111	391	60.3	1,537.86	35.01
Bosnia and Herzegovina	125,123	1,689	4,868	93	15	3.3	1,474.7	28.17
Portugal	778,369	22,595	14,885	1,145	167	10.27	1,449.45	111.5
USA¹	27,283,589	653,231	473,232	15,699	3,718	328.24	1,441.73	47.83
North Macedonia	96,152	1,956	2,966	58	7	2.08	1,423.59	27.84
Hungary	381,875	8,311	13,444	514	97	9.77	1,376.06	52.61
Bulgaria	228,044	4,985	9,561	259	34	6.98	1,370.6	37.13
Spain	3,041,454	99,464	64,217	2,831	513	47.08	1,364.09	60.14
Moldova	167,546	4,146	3,607	92	3,607	2.66	1,357.22	34.62