As others note, only quite wealthy countries have the capacity to actually test everyone who dies. Many countries in Africa do not have the infrastructure that

As others note, only quite wealthy countries have the capacity to actually test everyone who dies. Many countries in Africa do not have the infrastructure that tracks regular births and deaths for the census. This means we don't even have centralized excess mortality data. In fact, South Africa is one of the few on the continent south of the Sahara that does. I've set up a plot of South Africa, Canada and UK excess mortality since the start of this: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline?country=ZAF~CAN~GBR https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores... Looks pretty bad. Of course, it may be different in African countries with a much lower HIV rate. The data isn't available as far as I know.