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COVID-19 cases and deaths per million in 206 countries as of December 13, 2021

Published by Raynor de Best, Dec 13, 2021
Based on a comparison of coronavirus deaths in 206 countries relative to their population, Peru had the most losses to COVID-19 up until December 13, 2021. As of the same date, the virus had infected over 270.2 million people worldwide, and the number of deaths had totaled more than 5.3 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, "the Kent mutation" (B.1.1.7) that appeared in the UK in late 2020, the 2021 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) from India or the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) from South Africa.

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 December 13, 2021, by country

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Release date

December 2021

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

Data as of December 13, 2021, 10:21 CET

Special properties

Based on 2019 population figures; ¹ Figures without this country's dependencies. If daily change is negative, then the dependencies reported new figures earlier than the “main” country; This table shows worldwide countries with a population of one million or more. 51 countries or dependencies with a smaller population can be found under the "Details" tab.

Supplementary notes

The numbers shown here are not an automated update but a manual one. Numbers can change fast, sometimes within minutes, after they show on this platform. It's Statista's policy to update these numbers at least once per day, but we strive to do this more frequently than that. This includes updates on Saturday and Sunday. Delays are, however, possible.

For this statistic, numbers reported by Johns Hopkins University have been compared with the latest available population numbers. The population numbers in the table are rough indicates, the calculation used more precise numbers. Spain's population, for example, is 46.72 in the table but was 46.723749 in the calculation. Hence that the "deaths per million" might differ.

² The source originally put numbers together for some countries and their dependencies. Denmark included, for example, numbers for Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, whereas the Netherlands included numbers for Curacao, Aruba and the Dutch part of Saint Martin. The United States had similar issues with Guam, Puerto Rico, the (U.S.) Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands. To avoid confusion, these numbers have been separated: the numbers for the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and Denmark only concern the "main" country. The number for the United States only concerns the 50 states.

For consistency, countries with a smaller population (and a potentially much higher impact of coronavirus deaths) were not included in the table. These countries were as follows:

  • Montenegro, 159,788 cases (1,165 in last seven days), 2350 deaths (19 in last seven days), roughly 3,777 per million (31 per million in last seven days);
  • Gibraltar, 7,525 cases (149 in last seven days), 100 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 2,967 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • San Marino, 6,464 cases (247 in last seven days), 94 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 2,776 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • French Polynesia, 46,334 cases (10 in last seven days), 636 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 2,277 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Guadeloupe, 55,080 cases ( in last seven days), 823 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 2,184 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Martinique, 46,251 cases (440 in last seven days), 735 deaths (11 in last seven days), roughly 2,049 per million (31 per million in last seven days);
  • Suriname, 51,202 cases (150 in last seven days), 1177 deaths (3 in last seven days), roughly 2,025 per million (5 per million in last seven days);
  • Sint Maarten (Dutch part), 4,632 cases (24 in last seven days), 75 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 1,841 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • The Bahamas, 22,881 cases (42 in last seven days), 708 deaths (3 in last seven days), roughly 1,818 per million (8 per million in last seven days);
  • Grenada, 5,915 cases (6 in last seven days), 200 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 1,786 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Liechtenstein, 5,327 cases (386 in last seven days), 67 deaths (5 in last seven days), roughly 1,762 per million (132 per million in last seven days);
  • Andorra, 19,440 cases (809 in last seven days), 133 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 1,724 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Aruba, 16,593 cases (143 in last seven days), 177 deaths (3 in last seven days), roughly 1,665 per million (28 per million in last seven days);
  • Bermuda, 5,764 cases (13 in last seven days), 106 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 1,658 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Guam, 19,325 cases (42 in last seven days), 267 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 1,596 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • St. Lucia, 13,086 cases (38 in last seven days), 283 deaths (1 in last seven days), roughly 1,548 per million (5 per million in last seven days);
  • Belize, 31,033 cases (209 in last seven days), 586 deaths (-2 in last seven days), roughly 1,501 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • St Martin (French part), 4,040 cases ( in last seven days), 56 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 1,474 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Luxembourg, 93,429 cases (1,720 in last seven days), 890 deaths (5 in last seven days), roughly 1,436 per million (8 per million in last seven days);
  • Seychelles, 23,806 cases (142 in last seven days), 129 deaths (2 in last seven days), roughly 1,321 per million (20 per million in last seven days);
  • Guyana, 38,554 cases (337 in last seven days), 1020 deaths (12 in last seven days), roughly 1,303 per million (15 per million in last seven days);
  • British Virgin Islands, 2,816 cases ( in last seven days), 38 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 1,265 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Antigua and Barbuda, 4,162 cases (14 in last seven days), 117 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 1,205 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Curaçao, 17,589 cases (102 in last seven days), 182 deaths (2 in last seven days), roughly 1,155 per million (13 per million in last seven days);
  • French Guiana, 46,304 cases (162 in last seven days), 331 deaths (3 in last seven days), roughly 1,139 per million (10 per million in last seven days);
  • New Caledonia, 12,479 cases (94 in last seven days), 280 deaths (1 in last seven days), roughly 973 per million (3 per million in last seven days);
  • Malta, 40,546 cases (531 in last seven days), 470 deaths (2 in last seven days), roughly 935 per million (4 per million in last seven days);
  • Monaco, 4,093 cases (191 in last seven days), 36 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 924 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Barbados, 26,740 cases (540 in last seven days), 251 deaths (11 in last seven days), roughly 874 per million (38 per million in last seven days);
  • Virgin Islands (U.S.), 7,605 cases (56 in last seven days), 87 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 816 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Isle of Man, 12,580 cases (545 in last seven days), 67 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 792 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Fiji, 52,577 cases (15 in last seven days), 697 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 783 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 5,722 cases (99 in last seven days), 77 deaths (1 in last seven days), roughly 696 per million (9 per million in last seven days);
  • Mayotte, 21,088 cases (85 in last seven days), 185 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 662 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Turks and Caicos Islands, 3,137 cases (30 in last seven days), 25 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 655 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Cabo Verde, 38,503 cases (50 in last seven days), 351 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 638 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Channel Islands, 20,327 cases (852 in last seven days), 107 deaths (2 in last seven days), roughly 621 per million (12 per million in last seven days);
  • Dominica, 6,233 cases (147 in last seven days), 42 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 585 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis, 2,796 cases (6 in last seven days), 28 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 530 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Maldives, 93,119 cases (751 in last seven days), 258 deaths (3 in last seven days), roughly 486 per million (6 per million in last seven days);
  • Réunion, 3,882 cases (6 in last seven days), 391 deaths (7 in last seven days), roughly 455 per million (8 per million in last seven days);
  • Faroe Islands, 4,372 cases (415 in last seven days), 13 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 267 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Sao Tome and Principe, 3,733 cases ( in last seven days), 57 deaths (1 in last seven days), roughly 265 per million (5 per million in last seven days);
  • Brunei, 15,348 cases (146 in last seven days), 98 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 226 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Djibouti, 13,514 cases (6 in last seven days), 189 deaths (1 in last seven days), roughly 194 per million (1 per million in last seven days);
  • Comoros, 4,567 cases (24 in last seven days), 151 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 177 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Cayman Islands, 7,871 cases (208 in last seven days), 9 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 139 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Iceland, 19,159 cases (517 in last seven days), 35 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 97 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Northern Mariana Islands, 1,514 cases (1,119 in last seven days), 5 deaths (2 in last seven days), roughly 87 per million (35 per million in last seven days);
  • Bhutan, 2,649 cases (8 in last seven days), 3 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 4 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Vanuatu, 6 cases (0 in last seven days), 1 deaths (15 in last seven days), roughly 3 per million (50 per million in last seven days);

The following countries, dependencies or regions could not be calculated:

  • Burma, 526,661 cases (2,023 in last seven days), 19183 deaths (37 in last seven days);
  • Montserrat, 44 cases ( in last seven days), 1 deaths (0 in last seven days);
  • Saint Barthelemy, 1,674 cases ( in last seven days), 6 deaths (0 in last seven days);
  • Taiwan - province of China, 16,737 cases (75 in last seven days), 848 deaths (0 in last seven days);

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