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With 161 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, Belgium is the country with the highest number of Covid-19 victims in relation to the population, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University. Peru continues in the sad ranking (115 deaths per 100 thousand inhabitants), in third place is Italy with 112.
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In statistical terms, the Republic of San Marino is the country with the highest number of deaths based on population (162 out of 100,000), which however, due to the small number of inhabitants, has a total of 55 deaths. In absolute terms, on the other hand, our country is fifth in the world by number of deaths with more than 67,000 victims since the beginning of the pandemic, after the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico.
With 111.23 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, Italy in the ranking of the 20 countries most affected by Covid-19 precedes Spain (104.39), the United Kingdom (99.49) and the United States (94.97). Our country, on the other hand, ranks third in the ranking that takes into account the relationship between confirmed cases and deaths. Italy has a ratio of 3.5%, behind Mexico (9%) and Iran (4.7%) and ahead of the United Kingdom (3.4%).
In absolute terms, with 67,894 deaths, according to JHU data, Italy is the fifth most affected country in the world, behind the United States (311,529 deaths), Brazil (184,827), India (144,789) and Mexico (116,487). and ahead of the United Kingdom (66,639).
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