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COVID-19 cases and deaths per million in 203 countries as of August 19, 2021

Published by Raynor de Best, Aug 19, 2021
Based on a comparison of coronavirus deaths in 203 countries relative to their population, Peru had the most losses to COVID-19 up until August 19, 2021. As of the same date, the virus had infected over 209.3 million people worldwide, and the number of deaths had totaled more than 4.3 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 or the 2021 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) from India.

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 August 19, 2021, by country

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Release date

August 2021

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

Data as of August 19, 2021, 08:23 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. 49 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, 5,248 cases (61 in last seven days), 96 deaths (1 in last seven days), roughly 2,849 per million (30 per million in last seven days);
  • Montenegro, 107,576 cases (2,574 in last seven days), 1657 deaths (17 in last seven days), roughly 2,663 per million (27 per million in last seven days);
  • San Marino, 5,231 cases (37 in last seven days), 90 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 2,658 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Andorra, 14,976 cases (68 in last seven days), 129 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 1,672 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Liechtenstein, 3,185 cases (58 in last seven days), 59 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 1,552 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Luxembourg, 74,855 cases (310 in last seven days), 829 deaths (2 in last seven days), roughly 1,337 per million (3 per million in last seven days);
  • British Virgin Islands, 2,561 cases (9 in last seven days), 37 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 1,232 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Suriname, 26,916 cases (598 in last seven days), 692 deaths (20 in last seven days), roughly 1,190 per million (34 per million in last seven days);
  • Aruba, 13,511 cases (582 in last seven days), 121 deaths (6 in last seven days), roughly 1,138 per million (56 per million in last seven days);
  • Seychelles, 19,186 cases (291 in last seven days), 101 deaths (3 in last seven days), roughly 1,035 per million (31 per million in last seven days);
  • Sint Maarten (Dutch part), 3,313 cases (225 in last seven days), 42 deaths (4 in last seven days), roughly 1,031 per million (98 per million in last seven days);
  • St Martin (French part), 2,713 cases ( in last seven days), 39 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 1,026 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Guadeloupe, 35,283 cases (8,512 in last seven days), 346 deaths (55 in last seven days), roughly 918 per million (146 per million in last seven days);
  • Belize, 15,182 cases (444 in last seven days), 347 deaths (3 in last seven days), roughly 889 per million (8 per million in last seven days);
  • Malta, 35,516 cases (425 in last seven days), 433 deaths (4 in last seven days), roughly 861 per million (8 per million in last seven days);
  • Guam, 9,118 cases (253 in last seven days), 144 deaths (1 in last seven days), roughly 861 per million (6 per million in last seven days);
  • Curaçao, 14,751 cases (355 in last seven days), 135 deaths (3 in last seven days), roughly 857 per million (19 per million in last seven days);
  • Monaco, 3,099 cases (59 in last seven days), 33 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 847 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • French Polynesia, 34,327 cases (7,291 in last seven days), 235 deaths (51 in last seven days), roughly 841 per million (183 per million in last seven days);
  • The Bahamas, 16,668 cases (527 in last seven days), 313 deaths (2 in last seven days), roughly 804 per million (5 per million in last seven days);
  • Guyana, 23,795 cases (551 in last seven days), 587 deaths (18 in last seven days), roughly 750 per million (23 per million in last seven days);
  • French Guiana, 32,426 cases (987 in last seven days), 201 deaths (5 in last seven days), roughly 691 per million (17 per million in last seven days);
  • Martinique, 32,002 cases (4,119 in last seven days), 243 deaths (59 in last seven days), roughly 677 per million (164 per million in last seven days);
  • Mayotte, 19,625 cases (79 in last seven days), 175 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 626 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Cabo Verde, 34,529 cases (294 in last seven days), 300 deaths (2 in last seven days), roughly 546 per million (4 per million in last seven days);
  • Channel Islands, 10,005 cases (190 in last seven days), 92 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 534 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • St. Lucia, 6,578 cases (466 in last seven days), 95 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 520 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Bermuda, 2,715 cases (70 in last seven days), 33 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 516 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Turks and Caicos Islands, 2,568 cases (22 in last seven days), 19 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 497 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Fiji, 41,830 cases (3,018 in last seven days), 413 deaths (68 in last seven days), roughly 464 per million (76 per million in last seven days);
  • Antigua and Barbuda, 1,421 cases (49 in last seven days), 43 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 443 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Isle of Man, 6,112 cases (325 in last seven days), 37 deaths (1 in last seven days), roughly 437 per million (12 per million in last seven days);
  • Maldives, 79,525 cases (710 in last seven days), 222 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 418 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Virgin Islands (U.S.), 5,413 cases (320 in last seven days), 41 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 385 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Réunion, 3,882 cases (6 in last seven days), 310 deaths (12 in last seven days), roughly 360 per million (14 per million in last seven days);
  • Comoros, 4,039 cases (4 in last seven days), 147 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 173 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Sao Tome and Principe, 2,496 cases (16 in last seven days), 37 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 172 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Barbados, 4,594 cases (85 in last seven days), 48 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 167 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Djibouti, 11,689 cases (17 in last seven days), 156 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 160 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 2,320 cases (13 in last seven days), 12 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 109 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Iceland, 9,812 cases (566 in last seven days), 30 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 83 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis, 708 cases (78 in last seven days), 3 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 57 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Faroe Islands, 993 cases (6 in last seven days), 2 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 41 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Northern Mariana Islands, 183 cases ( in last seven days), 2 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 35 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Cayman Islands, 656 cases (5 in last seven days), 2 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 31 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Grenada, 188 cases (8 in last seven days), 1 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 9 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Brunei, 946 cases (403 in last seven days), 3 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 7 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Bhutan, 2,577 cases (24 in last seven days), 3 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 4 per million (0 per million in last seven days);
  • Vanuatu, 4 cases ( in last seven days), 1 deaths (0 in last seven days), roughly 3 per million (0 per million in last seven days);

The following countries or dependencies could not be calculated:

  • Burma, 363,169 cases (18,439 in last seven days), 13,786 deaths (1,119 in last seven days;
  • Montserrat, 23 cases (1 in last seven days), 1 deaths (0 in last seven days);
  • Saint Barthelemy, 1,336 cases (0 in last seven days), 2 deaths (0 in last seven days);
  • Taiwan - province of China, 15,891 cases (71 in last seven days), 821 deaths (4 in last seven days);

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