I guess, as a academic exercise, such comparisons should include population size and time span. Something like imperial death per year per capita. Ideally measu

I guess, as a academic exercise, such comparisons should include population size and time span. Something like imperial death per year per capita. Ideally measuring "excess deaths" in some fashion. For example Russian excess deaths all happened over quite a short time span. Does it mean their intensity of badness was higher?