80% of the World did better than Worst Recent Flu
Crude Death Rate changes compared to flu death rate of 2017/18
Note about the combined dataset: The 251 data points include some crossover, such as the data point for Germany, for instance, along with the data point for Europe overall. Each individual country is expected to be counted exactly three times: once alone, and a second time as part of a broader region, and then the data point for the world overall.
Reference
[Crude death rates by nation and year] — World Bank. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CDRT.IN
[2017/18 flu season led to 79,400 deaths when mid-season (January 2018) US population was 326.216 million, giving an annual flu death rate of 243 deaths per million] -- Rolfes MA, Flannery B, Chung JR, O'Halloran A, Garg S, Belongia EA, Gaglani M, Zimmerman RK, Jackson ML, Monto AS, Alden NB, Anderson E, Bennett NM, Billing L, Eckel S, Kirley PD, Lynfield R, Monroe ML, Spencer M, Spina N, Talbot HK, Thomas A, Torres SM, Yousey-Hindes K, Singleton JA, Patel M, Reed C, Fry AM; US Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness (Flu VE) Network, the Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Network, and the Assessment Branch, Immunization Services Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Effects of Influenza Vaccination in the United States During the 2017-2018 Influenza Season. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Nov 13;69(11):1845-1853. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz075. PMID: 30715278; PMCID: PMC7188082. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7188082/