Chart of deaths versus confirmed cases for countries with at least 50M population
N.b. This does not include the US. For the US see Covid-19 - Visualizing the US and California data. Also please ignore the spurious bubbles for Khirgistan (kg_, Malaysia (my), and the second bubble for Italy (it).
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), 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, Spain, 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.
- 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.