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Cause of death, by other COVID-19 pandemic-related outcomes (% of total)

Cause of death refers to the share of all deaths for all ages by underlying causes. Other COVID-19 pandemic-related outcomes capture all deaths due to the pandemic which were not specifically caused by COVID-19 or the indirect COVID causes. These are estimated by subtracting COVID-19 specific deaths and deaths attributed to indirect COVID-19 causes from total excess mortality.

World Bank code: SH.DTH.OCVD.ZS • Data available for 185 countries • Latest year: 2021

In , Bolivia led Cause of death, by other COVID-19 pandemic-related outcomes (% of total) at 12.00.

The world median across 185 reporting countries was 1.44.

What this measures: Cause of death refers to the share of all deaths for all ages by underlying causes. Other COVID-19 pandemic-related outcomes capture all deaths due to the pandemic which were not specifically caused by COVID-19 or the indirect COVID causes. These are estimated by subtracting COVID-19 specific deaths and deaths attributed to indirect COVID-19 causes from total excess mortality.

How "Health & Population" indicators are measured

Health and population indicators come from national vital-registration systems, demographic and health surveys, and modeling by the UN Population Division and WHO. Mortality and morbidity estimates are often modeled rather than directly observed in lower-capacity statistical systems, which means some figures are interpolations between survey years. Life expectancy is a "period" measure based on current age-specific mortality, not a forecast of how long someone born today will actually live.

Distribution — 2021

Reporting
185 countries
Median
1.44
Mean
2.26
25th percentile
0.00
75th percentile
3.61
Range
0.00 – 12.00

World at a Glance — 2021

Every reporting country, grouped by region, shaded by value (quintile).

East Asia & PacificAustralia: 0.00AUBrunei Darussalam: 0.00BNCambodia: 3.61KHChina: 0.11CNFiji: 6.91FJIndonesia: 9.97IDJapan: 0.00JPKiribati: 0.00KIKorea, Dem. People's Rep.: 0.79KPKorea, Rep.: 0.00KRLao PDR: 2.37LAMalaysia: 3.67MYMicronesia, Fed. Sts.: 0.00FMMongolia: 1.30MNMyanmar: 3.97MMNew Zealand: 0.00NZPapua New Guinea: 4.27PGPhilippines: 0.00PHSamoa: 0.00WSSingapore: 0.00SGSolomon Islands: 0.00SBThailand: 4.18THTimor-Leste: 2.88TLTonga: 0.00TOVanuatu: 3.18VUViet Nam: 0.91VNEurope & Central AsiaAlbania: 7.93ALArmenia: 0.00AMAustria: 0.00ATAzerbaijan: 7.92AZBelarus: 4.75BYBelgium: 0.00BEBosnia and Herzegovina: 1.48BABulgaria: 0.00BGCroatia: 0.00HRCyprus: 0.00CYCzechia: 0.00CZDenmark: 0.00DKEstonia: 0.00EEFinland: 0.00FIFrance: 0.00FRGeorgia: 0.00GEGermany: 0.00DEGreece: 0.00GRHungary: 0.00HUIceland: 0.00ISIreland: 0.00IEItaly: 0.00ITKazakhstan: 8.03KZKyrgyz Republic: 6.48KGLatvia: 0.00LVLithuania: 0.00LTLuxembourg: 0.00LUMoldova: 0.00MDMontenegro: 5.15MENetherlands: 0.00NLNorth Macedonia: 0.00MKNorway: 0.00NOPoland: 0.00PLPortugal: 0.00PTRomania: 0.00RORussian Federation: 6.60RUSerbia: 0.00RSSlovak Republic: 0.00SKSlovenia: 0.00SISpain: 0.00ESSweden: 0.00SESwitzerland: 0.00CHTajikistan: 4.23TJTurkiye: 5.72TRTurkmenistan: 0.98TMUkraine: 5.19UAUnited Kingdom: 0.00GBUzbekistan: 2.76UZLatin America & CaribbeanAntigua and Barbuda: 0.00AGArgentina: 0.00ARBahamas, The: 6.41BSBarbados: 0.00BBBelize: 3.20BZBolivia: 12.00BOBrazil: 0.00BRChile: 0.00CLColombia: 0.00COCosta Rica: 0.00CRCuba: 0.00CUDominican Republic: 3.63DOEcuador: 0.00ECEl Salvador: 5.64SVGrenada: 0.00GDGuatemala: 9.30GTGuyana: 0.00GYHaiti: 4.00HTHonduras: 6.38HNJamaica: 5.46JMMexico: 0.00MXNicaragua: 0.00NIPanama: 0.00PAParaguay: 0.00PYPeru: 0.00PEPuerto Rico (US): 0.00PRSt. Lucia: 9.25LCSt. Vincent and the Grenadines: 0.00VCSuriname: 5.57SRTrinidad and Tobago: 5.20TTUruguay: 0.00UYVenezuela, RB: 1.84VEMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanAfghanistan: 3.50AFAlgeria: 2.30DZBahrain: 3.19BHDjibouti: 2.82DJEgypt, Arab Rep.: 7.16EGIran, Islamic Rep.: 7.04IRIraq: 2.68IQIsrael: 0.00ILJordan: 8.39JOKuwait: 6.52KWLebanon: 8.45LBLibya: 5.11LYMalta: 0.00MTMorocco: 3.66MAOman: 9.08OMPakistan: 3.02PKQatar: 5.11QASaudi Arabia: 4.12SASyrian Arab Republic: 2.14SYTunisia: 8.52TNUnited Arab Emirates: 4.24AEWest Bank and Gaza: 3.09PSYemen, Rep.: 3.36YENorth AmericaCanada: 0.00CAUnited States: 0.00USSouth AsiaBangladesh: 3.14BDBhutan: 0.00BTIndia: 5.50INMaldives: 1.96MVNepal: 3.79NPSri Lanka: 2.64LKSub-Saharan AfricaAngola: 1.14AOBenin: 1.13BJBotswana: 7.11BWBurkina Faso: 1.65BFBurundi: 0.95BICabo Verde: 1.90CVCameroon: 2.18CMCentral African Republic: 1.99CFChad: 1.72TDComoros: 2.48KMCongo, Dem. Rep.: 1.44CDCongo, Rep.: 1.80CGCote d'Ivoire: 1.65CIEquatorial Guinea: 1.31GQEritrea: 1.63EREswatini: 4.67SZEthiopia: 2.13ETGabon: 1.42GAGambia, The: 2.51GMGhana: 1.54GHGuinea: 1.13GNGuinea-Bissau: 2.11GWKenya: 1.97KELesotho: 2.72LSLiberia: 0.91LRMadagascar: 1.91MGMalawi: 2.12MWMali: 1.18MLMauritania: 3.36MRMauritius: 0.00MUMozambique: 2.68MZNamibia: 6.83NANiger: 1.26NENigeria: 0.76NGRwanda: 1.57RWSao Tome and Principe: 2.47STSenegal: 3.15SNSeychelles: 0.01SCSierra Leone: 0.56SLSomalia, Fed. Rep.: 3.03SOSouth Africa: 7.88ZASouth Sudan: 1.18SSSudan: 4.07SDTanzania: 1.42TZTogo: 1.26TGUganda: 1.52UGZambia: 2.60ZMZimbabwe: 2.96ZW

Lighter = lower value · Darker = higher value. Hover a cell to see the country and value.

Highest Values — 2021

# Country Cause of death, by other COVID-19 pandemic-related outcomes (% of total)
1 Bolivia Latin America & Caribbean 12.00
2 Indonesia East Asia & Pacific 9.97
3 Guatemala Latin America & Caribbean 9.30
4 St. Lucia Latin America & Caribbean 9.25
5 Oman Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 9.08
6 Tunisia Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 8.52
7 Lebanon Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 8.45
8 Jordan Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 8.39
9 Kazakhstan Europe & Central Asia 8.03
10 Albania Europe & Central Asia 7.93

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Biggest Movers — Year over Year

Largest increases

Largest decreases

By Income Group — Average

Income group Countries Mean
High income 58 0.87
Upper middle income 50 3.08
Lower middle income 50 3.26
Low income 25 1.88
Not classified 2 1.98

By Region — Average

Region Countries Mean
East Asia & Pacific 26 1.85
Europe & Central Asia 48 1.40
Latin America & Caribbean 32 2.43
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 23 4.50
North America 2 0.00
South Asia 6 2.84
Sub-Saharan Africa 48 2.19

Lowest Values — 2021

# Country Cause of death, by other COVID-19 pandemic-related outcomes (% of total)
1 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 0.00
2 Brunei Darussalam 0.00
3 Brazil 0.00
4 Sweden 0.00
5 Switzerland 0.00
6 Bhutan 0.00
7 Tonga 0.00
8 Belgium 0.00
9 Georgia 0.00
10 Australia 0.00
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Source: World Bank Open Data (SH.DTH.OCVD.ZS), CC BY 4.0. Rankings show countries with available data for 2021.