COVID-19 mortality rate in Latin America 2023, by country

Peru is the country with the highest mortality rate due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Latin America. As of November 13, 2023, the country registered over 672 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. It was followed by Brazil, with around 331.5 fatal cases per 100,000 population. In total, over 1.76 million people have died due to COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean.Are these figures accurate?Although countries like Brazil already rank among the countries most affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), there is still room to believe that the number of cases and deaths in Latin American countries are underreported. The main reason is the relatively low number of tests performed in the region. For example, Brazil, one of the most impacted countries in the world, has performed approximately 63.7 million tests as of December 22, 2022. This compared with over one billion tests performed in the United States, approximately 909 million tests completed in India, or around 522 million tests carried out in the United Kingdom. Capacity to deal with the outbreakWith the spread of the Omicron variant, the COVID-19 pandemic is putting health systems around the world under serious pressure. The lack of equipment to treat acute cases, for instance, is one of the problems affecting Latin American countries. In 2019, the number of ventilators in hospitals in the most affected countries ranged from 25.23 per 100,000 inhabitants in Brazil to 5.12 per 100,000 people in Peru. For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

秘鲁是拉丁美洲因冠状病毒疾病（COVID-19）导致的死亡率最高的国家。截至2023年11月13日，该国每10万人中登记的死亡人数超过672人。其后为巴西，每10万人中有约331.5例死亡病例。拉丁美洲和加勒比地区因COVID-19共造成超过1760万人死亡。这些数据是否准确？尽管如巴西等国家已位列全球受COVID-19影响最严重的国家之列，但仍有必要相信拉丁美洲国家的病例和死亡人数可能被低估。主要原因在于该地区进行的检测数量相对较少。例如，作为全球受影响最严重的国家之一，截至2022年12月22日，巴西已进行了约6370万次检测。而相比之下，美国进行了超过10亿次检测，印度完成了约9.09亿次检测，英国则进行了约5.22亿次检测。应对疫情的能力随着奥密克戎变种的传播，COVID-19疫情对全球卫生系统造成了严重压力。例如，治疗急性病例所需设备的缺乏是影响拉丁美洲国家的问题之一。在2019年，受影响最严重的国家医院中每10万人拥有的呼吸机数量从巴西的25.23台到秘鲁的5.12台不等。欲了解更多关于冠状病毒（COVID-19）大流行的信息，请访问我们的专门事实和数据页面。