Like India, Russia presents an interesting case study
if the reported numbers are accurate.
They have tested ~30% of the adult population (a bit less than us) which is well ahead of the 4% in India but their CMR is fairly similar to that of India at 1.728% and better than our 2.349%. Where they differ alarmingly, to the point where you'd have to question the data, is in cases and deaths per 100k of population.
Russia has 842 cases / 100k adults where India has 351 / 100k and Australia has 141 / 100k. You'd expect Russia to be higher than India given the higher test percentages so the more relevant data is that for deaths per 100k adults as that shouldn't be impacted by testing volumes. Here we see that Australia is at 3.33, India 6.32 and Russia 14.55.
Even when we count them based on total population, Australia is 2.28, India 4.54 and Russia 11.59 per 100k. To put that in perspective against other countries; Argentina is 17.98, Canada 24.13, Iran 25.29, Bangladesh 25.34, Ireland 35.98, Colombia 36.29, Ecuador 36.86, France 46.87, Mexico 48.54, USA 56.10, Brazil 56.25, Sweden 57.64, Chile 58.23, Italy 58.66, UK 61.11, Spain 62.05, Belgium 85.28 and Peru 85.76.
At the other end of the scale Singapore is 0.46, New Zealand 0.56, Japan 0.97, Hong Kong 1.12, Lebanon 2.17, Greece 2.48, Indonesia 2.62 and Palestine 2.84.
