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March 11, 2022

Andrew Campbell 

India is first, followed by Russia, the United States, Brazil, and Mexico. According to a study published in The Lancet, the death toll from COVID-19 may be three times higher than official records imply. More details are available from Christopher Murray, Director of the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

According to an article published in The Lancet on March 10 titled " Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020–21," the true number of lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic by December 31, 2021 was close to 18 million. This considerably outnumbers the 5.9 million deaths reported to various government sources during the same time span.

From January 1, 2020, to December 31, 2021, this research focuses on measuring excess mortality from the COVID-19 pandemic in 191 countries and territories, as well as 252 sub-national units for selected countries. At the regional level, the regions of south Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, and Eastern Europe had the highest number of COVID-19-related mortality. India (371–436 million), the United States (108–118 million), Russia (106–108 million), Mexico (741,000–867,000), Brazil (730,000–847,000), Indonesia (594,000–955,000), and Pakistan (498,000–847,000) had the highest numbers of cumulative excess deaths due to COVID-19. As a result, Russia and Mexico had the highest excess mortality rates, followed by Brazil and the United States.