Chart of deaths versus confirmed cases for countries with at least 50M population,
| 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 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).