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New Zealand has been ranked among the best in managing Covid-19, while Australia is ranked eighth, according to an index released today by the Lowy Institute.
The Lowy Institute’s new interactive feature – the Covid Performance Index – examines how countries and territories are performing in the face of the pandemic.
It is based on crunchy data for the 36 weeks following the 100th confirmed case of Covid-19 in each country, based on indicators such as confirmed cases, confirmed deaths, confirmed cases per million people, confirmed deaths per million people, confirmed cases as a proportion of tests and tests per thousand people.
Of nearly 100 jurisdictions with publicly available and comparable data in these categories, New Zealand leads the way. Next come Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand, Cyprus, Rwanda, Iceland and Australia.
Researchers say China was not included in the ranking due to a lack of public data on testing, but South Korea is ranked 20th, Japan 45th, UK 66th, Indonesia 85th and the United States 94th, with Brazil in last place at 98th.
“Although the coronavirus epidemic has started in China, Asia-Pacific countries, on average, have been shown to be the most effective in containing the pandemic,” the interactive says. “In contrast, the rapid spread of Covid-19 along the main arteries of globalization quickly overwhelmed Europe, then the United States.”
Researchers Alyssa Leng and Hervé Lemahieu say small countries with populations of less than 10 million “have been shown to be more agile than the majority of their larger counterparts in handling the health emergency for most of 2020” – but levels of development or differences in political systems “had less of an impact on outcomes than often assumed or made public”.
You can explore the interactive and learn more about how they analyzed the data, here.
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