True, but you're comparing total global population only to populations reporting covid related deaths. Think about how many countries there are that aren't reporting anything at all.
Rather than taking the US' share of the world's population, compare it only to the population of countries that are represented in the total covid death reports. Also, if you're excluding China's numbers because they're unreliable, then you must also exclude China's population from your percentage of total population figure. That's a billion people that you're representing in the denominator but not in the numerator.
But you didn't exclude China when you figured the USA's percentage of total world population. That's 4.25% of the world's population including China and all other countries that aren't tracking or reporting deaths due to the virus. So when you say we're "over represented" by percentage of deaths compared to percentage of global population, you're not comparing like data.
Remove China and the USA has 5.2 percent of the remaining population. That's just one country, and already we've reduced the perceived disparity by nearly ten percent. Remove all other countries that aren't reporting, and the disparity practically disappears.
True, but you're comparing total global population only to populations reporting covid related deaths. Think about how many countries there are that aren't reporting anything at all.
Rather than taking the US' share of the world's population, compare it only to the population of countries that are represented in the total covid death reports. Also, if you're excluding China's numbers because they're unreliable, then you must also exclude China's population from your percentage of total population figure. That's a billion people that you're representing in the denominator but not in the numerator.
But you didn't exclude China when you figured the USA's percentage of total world population. That's 4.25% of the world's population including China and all other countries that aren't tracking or reporting deaths due to the virus. So when you say we're "over represented" by percentage of deaths compared to percentage of global population, you're not comparing like data.
Remove China and the USA has 5.2 percent of the remaining population. That's just one country, and already we've reduced the perceived disparity by nearly ten percent. Remove all other countries that aren't reporting, and the disparity practically disappears.