Yeah Italy missed a lot of cases with their testing, which makes it seem higher. Spain also. If you look at Germany, South Korea you see a much lower death rat

Yeah Italy missed a lot of cases with their testing, which makes it seem higher. Spain also. If you look at Germany, South Korea you see a much lower death rate, but they also have younger populations. In this case you want the min, not the max or the average, because the death rate of the virus should be fixed. The lower the rate just tells you how effectively the country did their testing, and thus how accurate the denominator is. What complicates that greatly is the fact that the age of the population matters a lot. And Italy has one of the oldest populations. Countries in Africa with very young populations would expect a much lower death rate - complicated again by their relatively poor population and health systems and incompetent and corrupt governments.