covid-19 has killed many more people in richer countries than the populous developing world. However, a new World Bank study suggests that this could change since lower-income countries have a greater number of elderly people, who are more at risk due to the ill-effects of the coronavirus.Researchers Philip Schellekens and Diego Sourrouille say that as of 23 May, rich countries had about 79% of the global covid-19 deaths despite having just 16% of the population.
However, this share could later reduce to 31% if each country’s high-risk elderly population are taken into account, the study says.
This means that developing countries could end up accounting for 69% of the deaths.The estimates are based on the assumption that the infection.