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The deaths breakdown by region is interesting: Africa: 1.8M South America: 149k North America: 179k Australia: 4k Europe: 434k Asia: 6.3M I guess to keep

• more-nitor 2y ago
  hmmm not accounting for population size differences?
  • banqjls 2y ago
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• NhanH 2y ago
  Asia has about 4.8B population, Australia has 26M. On a per capita basis Australia has about 1x% more deaths
  • brokegrammer 2y ago
    My thoughts exactly. Africa and Asia see the highest numbers but this is proportional to the population count. Plus, countries in these regions have less advanced healthcare than in countries like Australia, but the latter still has a higher death rate. Quite mysterious.
  • defrost 2y ago
    On a per capita basis, Australia has world class epidemiology, medical record keeping, and "no sparrow falls" cause of death certification . . . This might be a case of a shortfall in record keeping and open reporting.
  • rdtsc 2y ago
    > Asia has about 4.8B population, Australia has 26M. On a per capita basis Australia has about 1x% more deaths 6.3e6/4.8e9 = 0.00131 4e3/26e6 = 0.00015 About 9x as bad? Not sure about 1x%, was that 1% worse? I am sorry I might have misunderstood that.
    • NhanH 2y ago
      I meant 11-19%, did mental maths so I did not want to specify exact value. Though my maths seems to be wrong as well!
    • timbit42 2y ago
      1x% to me would mean between 10% and 19% inclusive.
• TimByte 2y ago
  > I guess to keep it positive, I'd say "Great job, Australia"! Would be interesting to see how much of that is due to proactive regulation
  • rdtsc 2y ago
    I would guess better regulation, better medicine, less reliance of burning coal