The distorted national statistics of the coronavirus

We always see national covonavirus-statistics which lead us to the assumption that the USA would be the worst hit country and India for example the 17th, but the mistake is that they don’t take into account the percentage of the population being affected.

So I took https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ and turned into a graph to illustrade where the world stands on the 24th of april 2020: According to the percentage of deaths per million it looks like this:

Whether those countries did close their eyes to yet unseen cases or report wrongly is another issue and their business they have to live with.

So that you can make a text-search for your country I pasted this list in here:

0.5
rank #

San Marino
Name

14,765
promille in cases,

56,851
tests,

1,179
and deaths

(I overlooked San Marino above)

1	Belgium	3,693	15,502	560
2	Andorra	9,357	21,653	479
3	Spain	4,556	19,896	474
4	Italy	3,142	26,131	423
5	France	2,423	7,103	335
6	Sint Maarten	1,703	6,204	280
7	UK	2,034	8,595	276
8	Netherlands	2,085	10,913	244
9	Sweden	1,659	9,357	200
10	Isle of Man	3,61	31,447	188
11	Switzerland	3,293	26,293	179
12	Channel Islands	2,997	19,095	167
13	Ireland	3,566	22,598	161
14	USA	2,647	13,564	150
15	Luxembourg	5,855	58,933	133
16	Monaco	2,395		102
17	Portugal	2,192	29,473	80
18	Bermuda	1,59	15,238	80
19	Denmark	1,394	20,134	68
20	Iran	1,036	4,637	65
21	Germany	1,812	24,738	64
22	Austria	1,666	22,854	58
23	Canada	1,107	16,430	57
24	Saint Martin	983		52
25	Slovenia	657	21,984	38
26	Martinique	437		37
27	Norway	1,358	28,055	36
28	Estonia	1,2	34,059	34
29	British Virgin Islands	165		33
30	Panama	1,157	5,261	33
31	Ecuador	634	1,975	32
32	Finland	773	12,814	31
33	Antigua and Barbuda	245	1,103	31
34	Guadeloupe	370		30
35	Turkey	1,207	9,390	30
36	Iceland	5,243	132,143	29
37	Romania	525	5,891	28
38	North Macedonia	624	6,551	27
39	Turks and Caicos	284	2,144	26
40	Liechtenstein	2,124	23,605	26
41	Hungary	236	5,734	25
42	ENTIRE WORLD	348		24
43	Dominican Republic	511	1,683	24
44	Bahamas	178		23
45	Israel	1,71	27,763	22
46	Barbados	264	4,043	21
47	Moldova	725	2,916	20
48	Czechia	667	18,277	20
49	Aruba	937	14,377	19
50	Peru	634	5,618	17
51	Serbia	833	5,874	16
52	Bosnia and Herzegovina	431	6,533	16
53	Brazil	233	1,373	16
54	Lithuania	514	30,706	15
55	Mayotte	1,195	7,698	15
56	Cayman Islands	1,004	11,838	15
57	Croatia	483	7,028	12
58	Poland	278	6,625	12
59	Greece	236	5,684	12
60	Cyprus	658	33,747	11
61	Chile	618	7,070	9
62	Albania	230	2,262	9
63	Guyana	85	442	9
64	Algeria	69	148	9
65	Armenia	514	5,386	8
66	Montenegro	503	8,096	8
67	Mexico	82	384	8
68	Mauritius	260	10,092	7
69	Bulgaria	158	3,886	7
70	Malta	1,008	60,721	7
71	UAE	885	79,875	6
72	Belarus	849	12,968	6
73	Latvia	412	21,759	6
74	Curaçao	85	1,853	6
75	Trinidad and Tobago	82	1,043	6
76	S, Korea	209	11,390	5
77	Honduras	52	256	5
78	Belize	45	2,052	5
79	Bahrain	1,303	58,787	5
80	Russia	430	16,457	4
81	Ukraine	164	1,653	4
82	Cuba	109	3,023	4
83	Morocco	97	595	4
84	Colombia	90	1,405	4
85	Argentina	73	925	4
86	Philippines	64	660	4
87	Kuwait	562		3
88	Saudi Arabia	400	5,745	3
89	French Guiana	358		3
90	New Zealand	301	21,002	3
91	Australia	261	18,300	3
92	Slovakia	243	10,517	3
93	Malaysia	173	3,627	3
94	Uruguay	158	4,183	3
95	Lebanon	101	3,547	3
96	Tunisia	77	1,596	3
97	China	58		3
98	Bolivia	58	379	3
99	Egypt	38	879	3
100	Qatar	2,695	25,497	3
101	Djibouti	998	10,748	2
102	Oman	336		2
103	Brunei	315	28,413	2
104	Azerbaijan	153	10,674	2
105	Cabo Verde	147		2
106	Japan	94	1,033	2
107	Jamaica	85	718	2
108	Cameroon	50		2
109	Iraq	42	1,613	2
110	Burkina Faso	29		2
111	Indonesia	28	219	2
112	Liberia	20		2
113	Suriname	17	689	2
114	Singapore	1,911	16,203	2
115	San Marino	14,765	56,851	1
116	Costa Rica	135	2,370	1
117	Kazakhstan	122	8,175	1
118	Georgia	107	2,099	1
119	Kyrgyzstan	97	6,072	1
120	South Africa	67	2,421	1
121	Pakistan	50	564	1
122	El Salvador	39	2,372	1
123	Congo	34		1
124	Afghanistan	33	165	1
125	Paraguay	30	925	1
126	Somalia	21		1
127	Mali	15	100	1
128	Gabon	75	257	1
129	Niger	27	200	1
130	Eswatini	27	615	1
131	Palestine	94	5,293	1
132	Bangladesh	25	219	1
133	Equatorial Guinea	60	609	1
134	Jordan	43	3,528	1
135	Thailand	41	2,043	1
136	Togo	11	572	1
137	Guatemala	19	402	1
138	Hong Kong	138	17,579	1
139	Guinea	66		1
140	Ivory Coast	38		1
141	India	17	363	1
142	Nicaragua	2		1
143	Senegal	29	28	0,4
144	Venezuela	10	12,211	0,4
145	Botswana	9	1,885	0,4
146	Haiti	5	56	0,4
147	Gambia	4	131	0,4
148	Ghana	37	2,207	0,3
149	Taiwan	18	2,435	0,3
150	Sri Lanka	17	345	0,3
151	Kenya	6	273	0,3
152	DRC	4		0,3
153	Sudan	4		0,3
154	Zimbabwe	2	336	0,3
155	Uzbekistan	53	6,274	0,2
156	Tanzania	5		0,2
157	Zambia	4	141	0,2
158	Syria	2		0,2
159	Malawi	2	27	0,2
160	Mauritania	2	208	0,2
161	Libya	9	172	0,1
162	Sierra Leone	8		0,1
163	Nigeria	4	39	0,1
164	Myanmar	2	102	0,09
165	Benin	4		0,08
166	Burundi	0,9	24	0,08
167	Angola	0,8		0,06
168	Ethiopia	1	93	0,03
169	St, Barth	607
170	Réunion	460
171	Saint Kitts and Nevis	282	4,831
172	Dominica	222	5,237
173	French Polynesia	203	6,418
174	Maldives	200	8,688
175	Anguilla	200
176	Greenland	194	20,257
177	Caribbean Netherlands	191	4,195
178	Saint Pierre Miquelon	173
179	Grenada	133	818
180	St, Vincent Grenadines	117	892
181	Seychelles	112
182	Saint Lucia	82	1,982
183	Macao	69
184	New Caledonia	63	13,212
185	Guinea-Bissau	25	762
186	Fiji	20
187	Sao Tome and Principe	18	87
188	Timor-Leste	17	244
189	Rwanda	12	537
190	Vatican City	11,236
191	Eritrea	11
192	Mongolia	11	2,183
193	Western Sahara	10
194	Bhutan	9	11,603
195	Cambodia	7	345
196	Namibia	6	206
197	Madagascar	4	85
198	Gibraltar	3,948	61,203
199	Faeroe Islands	3,827	130,467
200	Falkland Islands	3,448	96,839
201	Vietnam	3	2,119
202	Laos	3	201
203	CAR	3
204	Montserrat	2,204	7,212
205	Nepal	2	301
206	Chad	2
207	Uganda	1	351
208	Mozambique	1	42
209	Papua New Guinea	0,9	68
210	South Sudan	0,4
211	Yemen	0,03

This list shows you how absurd and outdated nationalism is.

To get your own community factor just divide a million by members of your community.
Then multiply the total cases, deaths, and if you know tests by that factor.
Example: 1.000.000 / 3711 ppl = 269,46… (the factor for the Diamond Princess Cruise-ship)
=> total cases = 712* 269… and total deaths = 14 * 269,469145782808. So I got:

rank # 0	Name *Diamond Princess*	promille in cases, 191862,03	tests, 1000000	and deaths 3772,57
0.1	*MS Zaandam*	42099,51	1000000	2186,99
53.5	my hometown Freiburg	217,08	?	16

And here, because there currently is a shortage on masks for civilians, a good video how to make one yourself without much money or tools. You will understand the video regardless whether you can speak french or not:

And to give you at least one little positive aspect of the covid-19, here from my favourite global newschannel:

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10 Replies to “The distorted national statistics of the coronavirus”

maylynno says:

2020-04-24 at 18:06

Thanks for this. It is insightful

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jvavadhanulu says:

2020-04-24 at 18:52

Thanks for the very intersting video and presenting a clearer picture of teh staistics.

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1. Amar says:
  
  2020-04-24 at 23:31
  
  Thank you, JV, I think that I will go from now on straight to that page: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ and sort it by deatths per 1m ppl descending to get the clearest result of the percentage affected worldwide.
  You as an Indian will like https://www.wionews.com – it took me a while to find some world-centric news which are neither mainstream nor biased (except for their anti-China mindset). I prefer to choose the theme I like from here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_gUM8rL-Lrg6O3adPW9K1g/playlists
  
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landzek says:

2020-04-25 at 16:52

Perhaps I am math/graph stupid. But I am not clear on what you are saying. What are the graphs tell me? That percapita there are more deaths in other countries?

Are you saying that the Stats are politicized ?

I’m sorry. I’m not being facetious.

What is the take away? I feeing really dumb right now. 👨🏽‍🚀

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1. Amar says:
  
  2020-04-25 at 20:27
  
  No, I don’t think that you are dumb at all – maybe I did not express properly what I wanted to convey:
  I was not criticising nations for their statistics but showing that statistics based on nations are irrelevant because it is the percentage which counts:
  From the national point we see the USA is the worst hit country and India was the 17th hit country, but according to how much of the population is affected the USA is only the 14th worst in the world and India the 141th only because the USA and India have so many people.
  So in case you are from the US this should be good news for you :-)
  
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  1. landzek says:
    
    2020-04-25 at 23:11
    
    Ah k thanks. I thought that’s what you were saying in general. But then I was trying to interpret the graphs and was not succeeding. So I thought maybe you were saying something else. ✊🏾
    
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    1. Amar says:
      
      2020-04-25 at 23:19
      
      Thanks, and sorry, and even better, because I miscalculated:
      The USA is not 14th but 17th currently. ;-)
      You can check daily on https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ by sorting “Deaths/1m population” descending.
      
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  2. landzek says:
    
    2020-04-25 at 23:19
    
    It was probably because I was looking at the post on my iPhone. And it wasn’t very conducive towards comparing what all the charts were showing 😄
    
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    1. Amar says:
      
      2020-04-25 at 23:28
      
      I know what is happening here, because I did experience that for years:
      Technology drove me crazy and it took decades to figure out that there is nothing I could do about that but changing my mental attitude towards it.
      That’s why you just came here in time for my online-meditation-course which I think you also could benefit a lot from.
      I know you might not relate one to the other, but there is some kind of “magic” in shifting ones own mind – in the last years my entire reality literally did shift around me
      (and to debunk the magic: It happened because I learned to stick to my inner voice and not bend to outer doubts or technical requirenments. You also obviously knew right away how to understand it right, you just doubted yourself unnecessarily. It’s all there inside you already.)
      
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      1. Amar says:
        
        2020-04-26 at 15:06
        
        Ah, Landzek, sorry to say that the USA now did rise one up to be #16 in the world.
        From the protests I see on the media some US-folks do not seem to understand the severity of the situation.
        
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