The US's coronavirus death rate is currently 1.6% — one of the lowest of any hard-hit country. Here's how it compares to places like China and Italy.

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• The coronavirus' death rate — a calculation that divides the number of known deaths by the total number of confirmed cases — varies widely by country right now.
• As of Friday, the US's death rate is about 1.6%, whereas Italy's death rate is 10.6% and China's is 4%.
• The global death rate is currently about 4.6%.
• The chart below compares death rates in 10 countries that have confirmed deaths and more than 9,000 cases.
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The US has reported more than 101,000 coronavirus cases. Italy isn't far behind, with at least 86,000 cases; China has reported just under 82,000.

But the COVID-19 death rate — the number of deaths divided by the total number of cases — from these three hard-hit countries varies wildly.

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