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                        "text": "What is the ",
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                        "text": " number of confirmed deaths?",
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                                "text": "Related charts: ",
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                                "text": "This chart shows the\u00a0number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths per day.",
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                                "text": "Three points on confirmed death figures to keep in mind",
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                                "text": "All three points are true for all currently available international data sources on COVID-19 deaths:",
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                                        "text": "The actual death toll from COVID-19 is likely to be higher than the number of confirmed deaths \u2013 this is due to limited testing and problems in the attribution of the cause of death. The difference between reported confirmed deaths and actual deaths varies by country.",
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                                        "text": "How COVID-19 deaths are recorded may differ between countries (e.g., some countries may only count hospital deaths, whilst others also include deaths in homes).",
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                                        "text": "The death figures on a given date do not necessarily show the number of new deaths on that day, but the deaths\u00a0",
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                                        "text": "\u00a0on that day. Since reporting can vary significantly from day to day \u2013 irrespectively of any actual variation of deaths \u2013 it is helpful to view the seven-day rolling average of the daily figures as we do in the chart here.",
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                                "text": "\u2192 We provide more detail on these three points in the section '",
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                                        "text": "Deaths from COVID-19: background",
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                                        "text": "Three tips on how you can interact with this chart",
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                                        "text": "By clicking on + Add Country you can show and compare the data for any country in the world you are interested in.",
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                                        "text": "If you click on the title of the chart, the chart will open in a new tab. You can then copy-paste the URL and share it.",
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                                        "text": "Map view: switch to a global map of confirmed deaths using the 'MAP' tab at the bottom of the chart.",
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                                "text": "Why adjust for the size of the population?",
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                                "text": "Differences in the population size between countries are often large, and ",
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                                        "text": "the COVID-19 death count in more populous countries tends to be higher",
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                                "text": ". Because of this it can be insightful to know how the number of confirmed deaths in a country compares to the number of people who live there, especially when comparing across countries.",
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                                "text": "For instance, if 1,000 people died in Iceland, out of a population of about 340,000, that would have a far bigger impact than the same number dying in the United States, with its population of 331 million.{ref}Here is ",
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                                        "text": "our visualization for the population of Iceland and the US",
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                                "text": ". Any other country can be added to this chart.{/ref} This difference in impact is clear when comparing deaths per million people of each country's population \u2013 in this example it would be roughly 3 deaths/million people in the US compared to a staggering 2,941 deaths/million people in Iceland.",
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                                        "text": "By moving the time slider (below the map) you can see how the global situation has changed over time.",
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