So it’s 15 million dead worldwide. The US and India account for 1/3 of the total.

Last week, the Times reported that the WHO, having undertaken a comprehensive inventory of worldwide deaths that can be attributed to Covid (and this includes going through a lot more than government mortality statistics, which are unreliable in a lot of the world), now believes that 15 million is the number so far. This compares with the official figure of 6 million, based on the statistics published by the individual governments.

And what country do they say is the world leader (both as a source of deaths and as an under-reporter)? India. That country has officially reported 520,000 deaths, but the WHO reportedly believes the true figure is 4 million. Given the horrible stories that were coming out of India about a year ago, this isn’t terribly surprising. Do you remember the thousands of bodies of people dumped in rivers like the Ganges, because their families couldn’t afford the cost of the wood needed to cremate them?

So India leads the world in total deaths. However, in deaths per million population, this new number still works out to a little below the US. Peru leads the world in the official figures, but the top big country in the official numbers is Brazil, at 3,131 deaths per million (it remains to be seen if the Brazil figure is greatly understated or not. I would think not).

The US is number two in the official figures of deaths per million, at 2,983. However, the article points out that Russia’s reported Covid deaths are far below what is probably their real figure of about a million – so Russia may actually be ahead of the US in deaths per million population. Using the article’s 4 million figure for India’s deaths, this leads to my estimate that they’re at 2,890 deaths per million, which is a little below the US.

In other words, Brazil is probably the top large country in deaths per million population, followed by almost a statistical tie among Russia, the US and India.

Not exactly an honor the US was seeking, but on the other hand we didn’t do nearly enough to avoid it. And we’re still not, given that our daily deaths are stuck around 500 at the moment. With cases now rising again, it’s not likely that deaths will decline in the near future. I’m still wearing my mask in public places.

The numbers

These numbers were updated based on those reported on the Worldometers.info site for Sunday, April 17.

Month	Deaths reported during month/year	Avg. deaths per day during month/year	Deaths as percentage of previous month/year
Month of March 2020	4,058	131
Month of April	59,812	1,994	1,474%
Month of May	42,327	1,365	71%
Month of June	23,925	798	57%
Month of July	26,649	860	111%
Month of August	30,970	999	116%
Month of Sept.	22,809	760	75%
Month of Oct.	24,332	785	107%
Month of Nov.	38,293	1,276	157%
Month of Dec.	79,850	2,576	209%
Total 2020	354,215	1,154
Month of Jan. 2021	98,604	3,181	119%
Month of Feb.	68,918	2,461	70%
Month of March	37,945	1,224	55%
Month of April	24,323	811	64%
Month of May	19,843	661	82%
Month of June	10,544	351	53%
Month of July	8,833	287	84%
Month of August	31,160	1,005	351%
Month of Sept.	56,687	1,890	182%
Month of Oct.	49,992	1,613	88%
Month of Nov.	38,364	1,279	77%
Month of Dec.	41,452	1,337	108%
Total 2021	492,756	1,350	158%
Month of Jan. 2022	65,855	2,124	159%
Month of Feb. 2022	63,451	2,266	96%
Month of March 2022	31,427	1,014	50%
Total Pandemic so far	1,015,451	1,329

I. Total deaths (as of Sunday)

Total US reported Covid deaths as of Sunday: 1,015,451

Average daily deaths last seven days: 461

Average daily deaths previous seven days: 471

Percent increase in total deaths in the last seven days: 0.3%

II. Total reported cases (as of Sunday)

Total US reported cases as of Sunday: 82,316,348

Increase in reported cases last 7 days: 242,897 (34,700)

Increase in reported cases previous 7 days: 198,919 (28,417/day)

Percent increase in reported cases in the last seven days: 0.3% (0.3% last week)

I would love to hear any comments or questions you have on this post. Drop me an email at tom@tomalrich.com.