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. 2020 Dec 28;149:e1. doi: 10.1017/S0950268820003076

Table 1.

COVID-19 disease burden, outcome and testing number of 36 OECD countries and Taiwan

Countries Confirmed cases Population mortality (deaths/1 M) Population testing number (tests/1 M) Critical case ratio (%) Test positivity rate (%) Testing coverage
Taiwan 388 0.3 1954 NA 0.83 120.0
Australia 6313 2 13 880 2.8 1.78 56.1
South Korea 10 512 4 10 038 1.9 2.04 49.0
New Zealand 1330 0.8 12 684 0.6 2.17 46.0
Latvia 651 3 14 958 0.3 2.31 43.3
Slovakia 742 0.4 5023 0.7 2.71 37.0
Lithuania 1053 8 14 132 1.5 2.74 36.5
Slovenia 1205 25 16 764 3.5 3.46 28.9
Hungary 1410 10 3471 4.9 4.20 23.8
Estonia 1309 19 22 878 0.9 4.31 23.2
Czechia 5905 12 11 684 1.6 4.72 21.2
Iceland 1689 23 101 497 1.3 4.88 20.5
Poland 6356 5 3423 8.5 4.91 20.4
Norway 6459 23 23 332 1.1 5.11 19.6
Greece 2081 9 3583 4.4 5.57 17.9
Canada 23 318 17 10 639 3.4 5.81 17.2
Finland 2974 10 8125 3.1 6.61 15.1
Denmark 5996 45 11 700 2.8 8.85 11.3
Chile 6927 4 3995 7.7 9.07 11.0
Israel 10 878 12 13 557 1.9 9.27 10.8
Germany 125 452 34 15 730 7.5 9.52 10.5
Austria 13 945 39 16 086 3.7 9.63 10.4
Japan 6748 0.9 544 2.0 9.81 10.2
Portugal 15 987 46 15 966 1.5 9.82 10.2
Luxembourg 3270 99 46 272 1.1 11.29 8.9
Mexico 4219 2 275 4.1 11.89 8.4
Switzerland 25 300 120 21 954 3.2 13.32 7.5
Turkey 52 167 13 4036 3.4 15.33 6.5
Italy 152 271 322 15 935 3.4 15.80 6.3
Ireland 8928 65 10 734 2.3 16.85 5.9
Sweden 10 151 88 5416 8.9 18.56 5.4
USA 533 115 62 8138 2.4 19.79 5.1
UK 78 991 145 4934 2.3 23.58 4.2
Netherlands 24 413 154 5926 6.4 24.04 4.2
Belgium 29 647 311 8814 6.2 29.02 3.4
France 129 654 212 5114 7.7 38.84 2.6
Spain 166 019 363 7593 8.5 46.77 2.1