How a country defines a Covid-19 death correlates well with how bad their death rate is

Countries that take very inclusive approaches to defining Covid-19 deaths unsurprisingly top the charts of death rates from the pandemic

The pandemic’s top 13 death rate countries are as follows, from statista.com:

How is a Covid-19 death defined in each country? Unsurprisingly, we see that each country that is included in this top 13 list, and has non-negligible infection and mortality numbers, simply defines a Covid-19 very inclusively as any death related to Covid-19, with some not even requiring a positive test. None of these countries require any affirmative statement of attribution of death due to the virus, rather than a comorbidity (preexisting condition) here’s how Each nation defines a Covid-19 death:

• Yemen: very low infection and mortality numbers
• Italy: defined as any death that tested positive for cov2 virus with a PCR test, at any point in time
• UK: any positive test and later death at any later time and anywhere, after April 29, but this was later re-defined to include only deaths taking place no more than 28 days after a positive test, resulting in a significant reduction in the Covid-19 death tally in August
• Belgium: any death suspected or tested positive (basically same ultra inclusive as US; “more than half of those deaths have been in nursing homes” and ONLY 4.5% OF THOSE deaths were actually tested)
• Hungary: couldn’t find the definition and overall cases and deaths are extremely low anyway
• Mexico: can’t find
• France: any death “linked” to Covid-19, and only deaths in hospitals counted until an April 4 definition change
• Netherlands: must have tested positive and died in a hospital
• Chad: negligible
• Canada: follows WHO guidelines defining any positive test and then later death as a Covid-19 death
• Sweden: any death anywhere testing positive at any time for Covid-19 is counted as a Covid death
• Spain: any patient who tested positive and later died anywhere
• Liberia: negligible