The following statistics are from the Johns Hopkins University site (https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/blob/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_time_series/time_series_covid19_confirmed_global.csv)
Top 9 N hemisphere countries by Covid-19 confirmed cases 9/10/20
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European Union and the US
Here we compare the United States (US) cases with the top 8 European Union (EU) countries by population.
| Name | Population (K) | Region | Income per capita ($) | Pop-Density (Kpop/sq-km) | Median Age (yrs) | COVID-19 Information | ||
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| Belgium | 11589.623 | W Europe | 49367 | 0.38 | 41.799999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Belgium | ||
| France | 65273.511 | France | 65273.511 | W Europe | 44033 | 0.118 | 42 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_France |
| Germany | 83783.942 | W Europe | 52556 | 0.235 | 46.599998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Germany | ||
| Italy | 60461.826 | S Europe | 40924 | 0.201 | 47.900002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Italy | ||
| Netherlands | 17134.872 | Netherlands | 17134.872 | W Europe | 54422 | 0.409 | 43.200001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_Netherlands |
| Poland | 37846.611 | E Europe | 29924 | 0.121 | 41.799999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Poland | ||
| Romania | 19237.691 | E Europe | 26660 | 0.081 | 43 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Romania | ||
| Spain | 46754.778 | Spain | 46754.778 | S Europe | 39037 | 0.092 | 45.5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Spain |
| United States | 331002.651 | N America | 59928 | 0.035 | 38.299999 |
Also see:
- https://www.statista.com/chart/22102/daily-covid-19-cases-in-the-us-and-the-eu/
- https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/06/the-us-lags-way-behind-europe-in-covid-19-mortality/
- https://www.healthline.com/health-news/europe-fights-back-against-second-covid-19-wave#Why-are-cases-rising?
In particular, we wished to investigate in more detail the comparison between the US and the EU shown in https://www.statista.com/chart/22102/daily-covid-19-cases-in-the-us-and-the-eu/ and seen below:
Thus we extracted the EU Covid-19 results as of September 4th 2020, for the top 8 EU countries by population and compared them with the US, see below.
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