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. 2022 Dec 21;16(2):196–205. doi: 10.1016/j.jiph.2022.12.011

Table 1.

Background information.

Indicators Obs. GHSI_2021 (Mean (SD) GHSI_2019
(Mean (SD)
Total COVID-19 cases Total COVID-19 deaths
Region
Africa 54 29.1 (5.8) 29.4 (6.2) 11,239,867 253,772
Central Asia 5 37.7 (7.0) 37.7 (6.3) 1854,147 23,771
Eastern Asia 5 46.1 (19.4) 46.7 (18.2) 32,556,922 88,075
Europe 43 52.4 (10.1) 52.4 (11.0) 189,506,543 1713,031
Latin America/Caribbean 33 37.7 (10.3) 37.4 (9.7) 72,649,195 1735,725
Northern America 2 72.9 (4.3) 71.9 (6.1) 89,571,299 1046,388
Oceania 16 29.7 (14.9) 28.6 (14.8) 10,604,984 50,117
South-eastern Asia 11 45.1 (12.2) 43.0 (13.0) 33,973,191 392,082
Southern Asia 9 34.9 (4.4) 35.3 (5.2) 61,798,796 742,375
Western Asia 17 39.2 (12.1) 39.9 (11.3) 32,976,613 258,716
Population
<million 41 31.4 (7.7) 30.2 (7.7) 6178,203 49,474
1–10million 81 42.7 (14.0) 42.8 (14.1) 213,378,853 1778,323
10–50million 60 36.9 (14.0) 37.4 (13.6) 103,695,057 1209,163
100million+ 13 47.8 (12.0) 47.3 (11.8) 213,479,444 3267,092
Income levels
Low income 34 27.2 (6.1) 28.0 (5.9) 11,345,152 99,619
Lower middle income 45 33.7 (7.1) 33.5 (7.3) 82,240,410 1164,574
Upper middle income 56 37.3 (12.2) 37.0 (12.0) 135,567,092 2588,930
High income 60 50.9 (13.0) 50.5 (13.6) 307,578,903 2450,929

Source: Secondary Data of Global Health Security Index 2021