COVID-19 statistics

{Note from mods - this thread split from here: COVID-19 in other countries [Health & Family]}




I was curious to see infection and death rates per head of population to see how they compare to Australia.

I've just done a selection of the top countries and did a quick spreadsheet using population data taken from List of countries and dependent territories of the World by population:



Despite the US having far higher population than any of the other countries with lots of cases, their overall infection rate isn't as high (yet), and their death rate relatively low so far too.

Australia is doing relatively well - thanks to our small, well spread out population, just over 20 cases per 100,000 people and with only 28 deaths so far, we barely rate on the deaths per head of population measure.

Interestingly, Spain and Italy are seeing similar death rates. I'm not sure if that means much. The percentage of Spain's population infected is the highest out of all of the countries I looked at.

 

That information is available on Worldometers and scroll down - though for daily information for a full day, click on "yesterday" at the top of the list.

The US numbers are growing rapidly. Since Monday, their numbers have almost doubled while Spain and Italy have gone up 50%. My screenshot from Monday doesn't include Australia. This could be as a result of increased testing, however the proportion of positive to negative tests is quite high
Most recent data - about 24%.

Australia's positive rate is 1.9% despite high testing rates
Australia's virus testing rate leads world

 

This has been interesting, and information which has been previously difficult to find.

It does refute our PM's claim that Australia was the first country to test 1% of their population - many countries have done so. That's not being unfair to him, considering that the information was difficult to find.

 

According to Coronavirus Update (Live): 1,776,154 Cases and 108,586 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer the infection rates of Australia and New Zealand are similar - but the infection rate of many other countries is much higher.

 

Okay - recognising that reporting over Easter is generally not as accurate, I've updated my table and added a few more countries in.

Here is the data sorted by cases per million population:



Spain has by far the most. NZ and Australia are very similar.

Important to recognise that some countries are not testing as much as others - so there may be large numbers of undiagnosed cases in the community.

Here is the same data sorted by deaths per million population:



Spain still by far the most hard hit. Belgium has a surprisingly high death rate - up there with Italy.

Despite it's extremely high number of cases, the US is still doing relatively well in its death rate - although that could be a delay compared to Europe where most people are only recently infected and the disease hasn't yet progressed enough to cause larger numbers of deaths? Or it could be related to the relative age of the population being infected?

It would be interesting to see breakdown in country stats on infections and deaths based on age compared to overall population demographics in that country.

 

Worldometers shows data with cases per million population, and deaths per million; it has also been updated recently to show total tests done and tests per million population population. Data can be sorted by column, and drilled down in many cases. Thanks to @Biggbird for posting the link originally.

While the US isn't as bad as Europe, drilling down shows New York with some of the worst infection and death rates in the world.

Edit: Some breakdown by age:
How old are coronavirus patients in the US? We looked at hospitalization data from 19 states

It's two weeks old, and doesn't include New York, but interesting

 

If we are looking at this measure, New York State is doing a lot worse than Spain, Italy Germany or UK.
United States Coronavirus: 586,941 Cases and 23,640 Deaths - Worldometer
New York has 9,973 cases per million population, 513 deaths per million.

Spain 3,638 and 380.
Italy 2,638 and 338
Switzerland 2,968 and 131. High in cases but lower in deaths. They have a very high testing rate, 2.2% of the population, so perhaps caught more people earlier.
Coronavirus Update (Live): 1,924,635 Cases and 119,686 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer

 

That's a good point - the United States is a big country and as much as the virus is very wide-spread the really severe impacts are quite concentrated.

 

I've updated my table and included some individual US states (plus NSW).



New York is really struggling - fully 1% of the population has been infected. Death rate is extremely high too.

Other US states aren't quite as bad - New Jersey's death rate is much lower compared to their infection rate.

The UK death rate has now overtaken The Netherlands.

 

Not too difficult, the data is there - just no point, given the very low numbers of cases we're seeing. When I update tomorrow, I might look to add Vic and Qld in just for comparison.