The latest worldwide average death rate per one million people is 26, based on the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control situation report to Saturday 25th April. Here’s the updated list of countries with death rates more than twice that average:

Death rates are the best measures of a national government’s effectiveness, because in many countries with poor pandemic management, the total number of cases is under-reported.

From these results, it is clear that many nations which which put business ahead of evidence-based health advice have higher death rates. Some nations with lower death rates have also benefited from low tourism numbers from China, established pandemic testing expertise and/or social isolation cultures for influenza.

Many countries are still at an early stage of this crisis, many are clearly under-reporting deaths. These results will be revised each weekend, or you can view a chart and add your own selection of countries at this link: Ourworldindata.org

Full table for all countries below.

Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) – Situation Report Worldwide, 25 April 2020.