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The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022. WHO also said that the real numbers are far higher than the official tally because of unregistered deaths in countries without adequate reporting. [11]
Reporting standards vary enormously in different countries. No statistics are particularly accurate, but case and death rates in India (South Asia) and Sub-Saharan Africa in particular are probably much higher than reported. [27] [28] COVID-19 cases and deaths by region, in absolute figures and rates per million inhabitants as of 25 December ...
Of the 248 recognized countries and territories around the world, 229 have reported cases of COVID-19 [5]. For more international statistics in table and map form, see COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory. 108 countries and territories have more confirmed cases than the People's Republic of China, the country where the outbreak began.
The U.N. agency officially estimates that around 3.4 million people across the globe have died directly as a result of the coronavirus pandemic by May 2021.
Country Number of deaths (2023) China 11,684,177 India 9,507,008 United States 2,975,658 Nigeria 2,675,442 Indonesia 2,117,706 Russia 1,794,857 Pakistan 1,600,313
The list is based on CIA World Factbook 2023 estimates, unless indicated otherwise. Many developing countries have far higher proportions of young people, and lower proportions of older people, than some developed countries, and thus may have much higher age-specific mortality rates while having lower crude mortality rates.
Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.
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