Today's update of @OurWorldinData includes the 1,000,000th confirmed death attributed to COVID-19.

Graphs & data are helpful to retrace the story of this pandemic so far, since the first death was confirmed in China on January 9.

Here, the total is broken down by world region:

The 'relative' version of the same graph shows the different phases the pandemic went through: from an epidemic that originated in China, to the March/April wave in Iran & Europe, then (and still now) to North America, and finally to South America and Asia (especially India) now.

This story is far from over, but there are stark differences between world regions when it comes to the number of deaths per capita.

In the Americas, more than 500 people per million have died from the disease. In Europe, close to 300. In Asia, Africa, and Oceania, less than 50.

These differences exist not only in the past, but also in the present:
• South America is adding 3.5 deaths per million to this total every day
• North America is adding 2
• Europe was adding only 0.4 in August, but 0.8 now
• Oceania & Africa are adding fewer deaths every day

In Asia, the situation has increasingly worsened since March. While deaths per capita remain low, the gigantic size of the continent, where 4/7th of the world's population lives, means that the absolute number of deaths (1,700 per day) is now higher than in South & North America.

You can explore all of @OurWorldInData's graphs and data on our website, and using our COVID-19 Data Explorer: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer