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Comment by rdtsc

2 days ago

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 it positive, I'd say "Great job, Australia"!

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NhanH  2 days ago

Asia has about 4.8B population, Australia has 26M. On a per capita basis Australia has about 1x% more deaths

  • rdtsc  2 days 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  2 days 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!

  • brokegrammer  2 days 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  2 days 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.

TimByte  2 days 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  2 days ago

    I would guess better regulation, better medicine, less reliance of burning coal