How OECD countries are doing with Covid-19

I thought it would be interesting to look at how the 37 OECD countries have all done with Covid-19. As they are all fully developed economies, it is a reasonable set to compare between.

The first compare is tests done per million residents, where higher is of course better.

Rank		Country	Tests
1		Iceland	154,567
2		Luxembourg	85,078
3		Lithunania	62,252
4		Estonia	56,563
5		Denmark	51,533
6		Israel	51,172
7		Portugal	49,204
8		Belgium	44,456
9		Ireland	43,493
10		Spain	41,332
11		Italy	40,440
12		Latvia	40,065
13		New Zealand	37,957
14		Norway	36,140
15		Switzerland	34,857
16		Austria	33,761
17		Germany	32,981
18		Australia	30,395
19		Slovenia	28,850
20		Czech	27,453
21		Canada	27,346
22		US	26,099
23		UK	24,034
24		Slovak	21,681
25		France	21,213
26		Finland	21,026
27		Turkey	15,400
28		Sweden	14,704
29		Netherlands	14,570
30		Chile	13,390
31		Korea	12,874
32		Poland	11,719
33		Hungary	10,689
34		Greece	9,114
35		Colombia	2,746
36		Japan	1,597
37		Mexico	957

So Iceland by far has done the most testing at 15% of their population. Six countries have tested over 5% of their population and 12 countries over 4%. NZ is a respectable 13th at 3.8% of the population tested.

Four countries have tested under 1% of the population – Greece, Colombia, Japan and Mexico.

Now we have the number of known cases per million population.

Rank		Country	Cases
1		Japan	123
2		Colombia	198
3		Korea	211
4		Mexico	244
5		Greece	258
6		Slovak	267
7		Australia	272
8		New Zealand	309
9		Hungary	333
10		Poland	406
11		Latvia	493
12		Lithunania	527
13		Slovenia	697
14		Czech	754
15		Finland	1,036
16		Estonia	1,300
17		Chile	1,359
18		Norway	1,489
19		Turkey	1,607
20		Austria	1,751
21		Canada	1,761
22		Denmark	1,764
23		Israel	1,899
24		Germany	2,036
25		Netherlands	2,457
26		Sweden	2,502
27		Portugal	2,674
28		France	2,698
29		UK	3,114
30		Switzerland	3,490
31		Italy	3,592
32		US	3,994
33		Belgium	4,488
34		Ireland	4,565
35		Iceland	5,278
36		Spain	5,563
37		Luxembourg	6,184

Japan has the fewest cases per capita at around 0.01%. Australia is 7th at 0.027% and NZ at 0.031%.

The countries with the most cases are Luxembourg, Spain, Iceland, Ireland and Belgium.

Of course there is some relation between how much you test and how many positive cases you get. So what is the ratio of cases to tests?

Rank		Country	Cases/Tests
1		New Zealand	0.8%
2		Lithunania	0.8%
3		Australia	0.9%
4		Latvia	1.2%
5		Slovak	1.2%
6		Korea	1.6%
7		Estonia	2.3%
8		Slovenia	2.4%
9		Czech	2.7%
10		Greece	2.8%
11		Hungary	3.1%
12		Iceland	3.4%
13		Denmark	3.4%
14		Poland	3.5%
15		Israel	3.7%
16		Norway	4.1%
17		Finland	4.9%
18		Austria	5.2%
19		Portugal	5.4%
20		Germany	6.2%
21		Canada	6.4%
22		Colombia	7.2%
23		Luxembourg	7.3%
24		Japan	7.7%
25		Italy	8.9%
26		Switzerland	10.0%
27		Belgium	10.1%
28		Chile	10.1%
29		Turkey	10.4%
30		Ireland	10.5%
31		France	12.7%
32		UK	13.0%
33		Spain	13.5%
34		US	15.3%
35		Netherlands	16.9%
36		Sweden	17.0%
37		Mexico	25.5%

NZ has the lowest number of positive tests at 0.8%. Australia and Lithuania much the same.

12 countries have a rate of over 10% with Mexico the highest at 25% – which suggests more testing there would see many more cases.

How what about deaths per capita?

Rank		Country	Deaths
1		Australia	4
2		New Zealand	4
3		Slovak	5
4		Korea	5
5		Japan	5
6		Colombia	8
7		Latvia	10
8		Greece	14
9		Chile	16
10		Lithunania	18
11		Poland	21
12		Czech	25
13		Mexico	25
14		Israel	28
15		Iceland	29
16		Norway	40
17		Estonia	42
18		Hungary	42
19		Turkey	44
20		Finland	47
21		Slovenia	48
22		Austria	68
23		Denmark	90
24		Germany	90
25		Portugal	109
26		Canada	121
27		Luxembourg	160
28		Switzerland	211
29		US	238
30		Ireland	289
31		Netherlands	313
32		Sweden	314
33		France	402
34		UK	469
35		Italy	500
36		Spain	562
37		Belgium	735

So Australia and NZ doing best closely followed by Slovakia, South Korea, Japan and Colombia.

At the other end the worst are Belgium, Spain, Italy, UK, France and Sweden.

Now how many deaths have occurred compared to known cases?

Rank		Country	Deaths/Cases
1		Iceland	0.5%
2		Chile	1.2%
3		New Zealand	1.3%
4		Australia	1.5%
5		Israel	1.5%
6		Slovak	1.9%
7		Latvia	2.0%
8		Korea	2.4%
9		Luxembourg	2.6%
10		Norway	2.7%
11		Turkey	2.7%
12		Estonia	3.2%
13		Czech	3.3%
14		Lithunania	3.4%
15		Austria	3.9%
16		Colombia	4.0%
17		Japan	4.1%
18		Portugal	4.1%
19		Germany	4.4%
20		Finland	4.5%
21		Denmark	5.1%
22		Poland	5.2%
23		Greece	5.4%
24		US	6.0%
25		Switzerland	6.0%
26		Ireland	6.3%
27		Canada	6.9%
28		Slovenia	6.9%
29		Spain	10.1%
30		Mexico	10.2%
31		Sweden	12.5%
32		Hungary	12.6%
33		Netherlands	12.7%
34		Italy	13.9%
35		France	14.9%
36		UK	15.1%
37		Belgium	16.4%

Once again NZ and Australia doing well with only around 1.5% of known cases being fatal.

Iceland has the lowest rate which probably reflects they have done so much testing and found more people who had a mild version.

Nine countries have rates in excess of 10% which is massive. This suggests that their actual infection rate is much higher as you wouldn’t expect fatality rates to vary so much per country.

Overall Australia and New Zealand have done very well.