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COVID-19 deaths worldwide per million population as of April 14, 2021, by country

Published by Raynor de Best, Apr 14, 2021
Based on a comparison of coronavirus deaths in 202 countries relative to their population, Czechia had the most losses to COVID-19 up until April 14, 2021. As of the same date, the virus had infected over 137.4 million people worldwide, and the number of deaths had totaled more than 2.9 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 Kent 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 April 14, 2021, by country

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Sources

Release date

April 2021

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

Data as of April 14, 2021, 08:20 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. 48 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:

  • Gibraltar, 4,277 cases (2 in last seven days), 94 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 2,789 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • San Marino, 4,985 cases (81 in last seven days), 86 deaths (1 in last seven days), roughly 2,540 per million (30 per million in last seven days);
  • Montenegro, 94,643 cases (1,334 in last seven days), 1391 deaths (57 in last seven days), roughly 2,236 per million (92 per million in last seven days);
  • Andorra, 12,614 cases (251 in last seven days), 121 deaths (2 in last seven days), roughly 1,569 per million (26 per million in last seven days);
  • Liechtenstein, 2,768 cases (66 in last seven days), 56 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 1,473 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Luxembourg, 64,062 cases (1,269 in last seven days), 777 deaths (15 in last seven days), roughly 1,253 per million (24 per million in last seven days);
  • Aruba, 10,122 cases (288 in last seven days), 92 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 865 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Belize, 12,513 cases (28 in last seven days), 318 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 815 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Guam, 7,851 cases (23 in last seven days), 136 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 813 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Malta, 29,720 cases (312 in last seven days), 403 deaths (3 in last seven days), roughly 802 per million (6 per million in last seven days);
  • Monaco, 2,378 cases (25 in last seven days), 31 deaths (1 in last seven days), roughly 796 per million (26 per million in last seven days);
  • Sint Maarten (Dutch part), 2,188 cases (14 in last seven days), 27 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 663 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Mayotte, 19,706 cases (216 in last seven days), 167 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 598 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • French Polynesia, 18,678 cases (35 in last seven days), 141 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 505 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Guadeloupe, 12,304 cases (414 in last seven days), 189 deaths (12 in last seven days), roughly 501 per million (32 per million in last seven days);
  • Channel Islands, 4,053 cases (2 in last seven days), 86 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 499 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • The Bahamas, 9,505 cases (209 in last seven days), 190 deaths (1 in last seven days), roughly 488 per million (3 per million in last seven days);
  • Curaçao, 11,430 cases (1,245 in last seven days), 74 deaths (18 in last seven days), roughly 470 per million (114 per million in last seven days);
  • Turks and Caicos Islands, 2,360 cases (16 in last seven days), 17 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 445 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Samoa, 3 cases ( in last seven days), 86 deaths (1 in last seven days), roughly 436 per million (5 per million in last seven days);
  • St. Lucia, 4,355 cases (51 in last seven days), 64 deaths (1 in last seven days), roughly 350 per million (5 per million in last seven days);
  • Isle of Man, 1,575 cases (3 in last seven days), 29 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 343 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Cabo Verde, 19,231 cases (1,017 in last seven days), 187 deaths (12 in last seven days), roughly 340 per million (22 per million in last seven days);
  • Guyana, 11,277 cases (559 in last seven days), 258 deaths (8 in last seven days), roughly 330 per million (10 per million in last seven days);
  • French Guiana, 17,549 cases (417 in last seven days), 94 deaths (1 in last seven days), roughly 323 per million (3 per million in last seven days);
  • Antigua and Barbuda, 1,201 cases (24 in last seven days), 31 deaths (2 in last seven days), roughly 319 per million (21 per million in last seven days);
  • Suriname, 9,363 cases (163 in last seven days), 184 deaths (6 in last seven days), roughly 316 per million (10 per million in last seven days);
  • St Martin (French part), 1,693 cases ( in last seven days), 12 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 316 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Seychelles, 4,633 cases (301 in last seven days), 25 deaths (1 in last seven days), roughly 256 per million (10 per million in last seven days);
  • Bermuda, 1,912 cases (415 in last seven days), 16 deaths (2 in last seven days), roughly 250 per million (31 per million in last seven days);
  • Virgin Islands (U.S.), 3,005 cases (60 in last seven days), 26 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 244 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Comoros, 3,796 cases (38 in last seven days), 146 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 172 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Martinique, 8,887 cases (724 in last seven days), 59 deaths (5 in last seven days), roughly 164 per million (14 per million in last seven days);
  • Sao Tome and Principe, 2,268 cases (13 in last seven days), 35 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 163 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Réunion, 3,882 cases (6 in last seven days), 135 deaths (12 in last seven days), roughly 157 per million (14 per million in last seven days);
  • Barbados, 3,740 cases (49 in last seven days), 44 deaths (1 in last seven days), roughly 153 per million (3 per million in last seven days);
  • Maldives, 25,759 cases (568 in last seven days), 67 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 126 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Djibouti, 10,077 cases (771 in last seven days), 102 deaths (12 in last seven days), roughly 105 per million (12 per million in last seven days);
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 1,806 cases (40 in last seven days), 10 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 90 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Iceland, 6,274 cases (23 in last seven days), 29 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 80 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Northern Mariana Islands, 160 cases ( in last seven days), 2 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 35 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • British Virgin Islands, 178 cases ( in last seven days), 1 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 33 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Cayman Islands, 523 cases (10 in last seven days), 2 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 31 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Faroe Islands, 661 cases ( in last seven days), 1 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 21 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Grenada, 155 cases ( in last seven days), 1 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 9 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Brunei, 219 cases (4 in last seven days), 3 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 7 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Fiji, 68 cases (1 in last seven days), 2 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 2 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Bhutan, 927 cases (27 in last seven days), 1 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 1 per million (0 per million in last seven days);

For some countries no calculation could be done. These were:
  • Burma (142,596 cases, 55 in last seven days - 3,206 deaths, 0 in last seven days);
  • Montserrat (20 cases, 0 in last seven days - 1 death, 0 in last seven days);
  • Saint Barthelemy (907 cases, 132 in last seven days - 1 death, 0 in last seven days);
  • Taiwan, province of China (1,062 cases, 12 in last seven days - 11 deaths, 1 in last seven days).

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