Almost 15 million people have died as a result of the pandemic, according to a new estimate by the World Health Organization that reveals the holes in global fatality records
’s own figures. Behind this stark difference is that fact that recording deaths of any kind is an inexact science in many parts of the world – something that experts say must be solved.
The WHO’s new estimate is based on the number of fatalities that would have been expected had the pandemic not occurred. The team behind it combined national death data for each country with statistics from scientific studies carried out in the same country. The researchers also used a statistical model to account for deaths that may have been otherwise overlooked.
The team found that several countries had massively undercounted the number of its people who had died from the pandemic. This is particularly apparent in India, which accounts for about half of the extra deaths estimated by the WHO. By the WHO’s estimates, India has the largest death toll from covid-19 in the world. The team reported that the country experienced 4.7 million excess deaths in this time period, compared to the officially reported covid-19 death toll of
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