Table 1.

Description of the study sample by continent.

Continent	New Cases	Deaths	Population	Number of Countries
Africa	2,753,352	65,360	1,333,308,499	53
Asia	19,659,852	334,364	4,518,306,798	41
Europe	23,796,060	545,361	748,015,042	42
North America	23,013,002	512,367	575,845,728	20
Australia and Oceania	31,440	945	41,417,217	8
South America	13,194,159	362,651	430,457,607	12
Total	82,447,865	1,821,048	7,647,350,891	176