Chart of deaths versus confirmed cases for countries with at least 50M population, excluding the USA
| January thru July deaths vs confirmed cases | January thru July deaths/population vs confirmed cases/population | January thru July Deaths/population density vs confirmed cases/population density |
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N.b. For more details on the US see Covid-19 - Visualizing the US and California data.
Observations:
- China starts much earlier than any other country.
- The first country to record a death after China (cn) is Japan(jp) on Feb 11, followed by Iran (ir) on Feb 17.
- By the 4th week of February, South Korea and Japan (countries close to Japan) together with Iran and Italy have taken the lead in deaths.
- By the start of Apr: Italy (it), the US, Spain (es), the UK (uk), France (fr) and Iran (ir) had overtaken China in number of deaths and Germany (de) and Turkey (tr) were catching up.
- By the start of May: Italy, France and the UK are clear leaders in terms of deaths, and Turkey, Russia (ru), India (in) and Peru (pe) are close behind China in terms of deaths.By the the 4th week of April, the US had taken a commanding lean in both deaths (about twice that of the runner up Ily and confirmed cases (over four times greater than the runner up Italy).
- It is noticeable that from Mar thru Jun Japan (jp), South Korea (kr) and Malaysia appear to have slowed the growth and are passed by many other countries.By mid July, it is seen that Brazil (br) is catching up with the US (within a factor of two in deaths and confotrmed cases).