Top 15 countries with the highest mortality rate per 1 million inhabitants
Nickie Louise
Posted On March 27, 2020
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Even as the United States tops China to become the country with the highest cases of coronavirus, the US still ranks lower when we analyze the number of mortality per million inhabitants. According to real time data from Johns Hopkins University, the US is ranked third from bottom of 20 countries with a population of at least one million people. Italy tops the list with mortality rate of 135 per 1 million inhabitants
Countries with populations of less than 1 million were excluded from the analysis.
| Source : South China Morning Post (https://www.scmp.com/) |
| Country | Number of cases | Number of deaths | Population | Mortality / 1 million inhabitants |
| Italy | 80 539 | 8 165 | 60 461 826 | 135,0 |
| Spain | 56 188 | 4 089 | 46 754 778 | 87,5 |
| Iran | 29 406 | 2 234 | 83 992 949 | 26,6 |
| France | 29 155 | 1 696 | 65 273 511 | 26,0 |
| Netherlands | 7 431 | 434 | 17 134 872 | 25,3 |
| Switzerland | 10 714 | 161 | 8 654 622 | 18,6 |
| Belgium | 4 937 | 178 | 11 589 623 | 15,4 |
| Luxembourg | 1 453 | 9 | 625 978 | 14,4 |
| United Kingdom | 11 658 | 578 | 67 886 011 | 8,5 |
| Denmark | 1 877 | 41 | 5 792 202 | 7,1 |
| Sweden | 2 806 | 66 | 10 099 265 | 6,5 |
| Portugal | 3 544 | 60 | 10 196 709 | 5,9 |
| Austria | 6 398 | 49 | 9 006 398 | 5,4 |
| United States** | 85 505 | 1 288 | 331 002 651 | 3,9 |
| Ireland | 1 819 | 19 | 4 937 786 | 3,8 |
| Germany | 42 288 | 253 | 83 783 942 | 3,0 |
