Table 1.

Key demographic and health system-related characteristics of the 16 included countries

	Size of population	Number of initial infections (as of 1 April 2020)a	Date of first case	Hospital beds per 1000 populationb	Total hospital beds	Total ICU bedsc	ICU beds per 100,000 population
High-income
Australia	25,203,200	9618	25 January 2020	3.8	95,772	2200	8.7
Belgium	11,539,326	11,899	04 February 2020	6.2	71,544	1900	16.5
Chile	18,952,035	2449	03 March 2020	2.2	41,694	1000	5.3
The Netherlands	17,097,123	11,750	27 February 2020	4.7	80,356	1150	6.7
Upper-middle income
Colombia	50,339,443	702	06 March 2020	1.5	75,509	5600	11.1
Mexico	127,575,528	993	28 February 2020	1.5	191,363	3000	2.4
South Africa	58,558,267	1326	05 March 2020	2.5	146,396	1500	2.6
Sri Lanka	21,323,734	112	27 January 2020	3.6	76,765	519	2.4
Lower-middle income
Bangladesh	163,046,173	49	08 March 2020	0.8	130,437	1174	0.7
India	1,366,417,755	1251	30 January 2020	0.9	1,229,776	29,997	2.2
Nigeria	200,963,603	111	27 February 2020	0.5	100,482	128	0.1
Pakistan	216,565,317	1865	26 February 2020	0.6	129,939	3142	1.5
Low-income
Afghanistan	38,041,757	166	24 February 2020	0.5	19,021	100	0.3
Burkina Faso	20,321,383	246	09 March 2020	0.4	8,129	50	0.2
Tanzania	58,005,461	19	16 March 2020	0.7	40,604	38	0.1
Uganda	44,269,587	33	20 March 2020	0.5	22,135	55	0.1

ICU intensive care unit

^aTaken from various country-specific reports

^bTaken from The World Bank Data on hospital bed [23]

^cTaken from various country-specific reports