Going Viral: COVID-19 Density

When it comes to comparing things I am a big fan of ratios rather than looking at the absolute values. Here I did a quick analysis on a trendy topic to plan my next business trips before we all get travel restrictions:

Rank	Country	Reported COVID-19 Cases	Land Area (sq km)	COVID-19 per square km	COVID-19 per 100 square km
1	Vatican City	1	0.44	2.27273	227.27
2	San Marino	66	61	1.08197	108.20
3	Monaco	1	2	0.50000	50.00
4	Macau	10	25	0.40000	40.00
5	Bahrain	195	665	0.29323	29.32
6	Singapore	178	693	0.25685	25.69
7	Hong Kong	126	1,092	0.11538	11.54
8	South Korea	7,755	99,909	0.07762	7.76
9	Italy	12,462	301,230	0.04137	4.14
10	Maldives	8	300	0.02667	2.67
11	Qatar	262	11,437	0.02291	2.29
12	Malta	6	316	0.01899	1.90
13	Switzerland	652	41,290	0.01579	1.58
14	Guernsey	1	78	0.01282	1.28
15	Netherlands	503	41,526	0.01211	1.21
16	Denmark	444	43,094	0.01030	1.03
17	Belgium	314	30,510	0.01029	1.03
18	Jersey	1	116	0.00862	0.86
19	China	80,790	9,596,960	0.00842	0.84
20	Liechtenstein	1	160	0.00625	0.63
21	Lebanon	61	10,400	0.00587	0.59
22	Iran	9,000	1,648,000	0.00546	0.55
23	Germany	1,908	357,021	0.00534	0.53
24	Palestine	30	6,220	0.00482	0.48
25	Israel	97	20,770	0.00467	0.47
26	Spain	2,231	504,782	0.00442	0.44
27	France	2,281	547,030	0.00417	0.42
28	Kuwait	72	17,820	0.00404	0.40
29	Austria	246	83,858	0.00293	0.29
30	Slovenia	57	20,273	0.00281	0.28
31	Luxembourg	7	2,586	0.00271	0.27
32	Andorra	1	468	0.00214	0.21
33	Brunei	11	5,770	0.00191	0.19
34	United Kingdom	460	241,930	0.00190	0.19
35	Norway	598	324,220	0.00184	0.18
36	Japan	639	377,835	0.00169	0.17
37	Taiwan	48	36,193	0.00133	0.13
38	Czech Republic	91	78,866	0.00115	0.12
39	Sweden	500	449,964	0.00111	0.11
40	United Arab Emirates	74	82,880	0.00089	0.09
41	Iceland	90	103,000	0.00087	0.09
42	Greece	99	131,940	0.00075	0.08
43	Cyprus	6	9,250	0.00065	0.06
44	Portugal	59	92,391	0.00064	0.06
45	Ireland	43	70,280	0.00061	0.06
46	Albania	15	28,748	0.00052	0.05
47	Malaysia	149	329,750	0.00045	0.05
48	Estonia	16	45,226	0.00035	0.04
49	Georgia	24	69,700	0.00034	0.03
50	Croatia	19	56,542	0.00034	0.03
51	North Macedonia	7	25,433	0.00028	0.03
52	Costa Rica	13	51,100	0.00025	0.03
53	Slovakia	10	48,845	0.00020	0.02
54	Romania	47	237,500	0.00020	0.02
55	Serbia	18	102,350	0.00018	0.02
56	Finland	59	337,030	0.00018	0.02
57	Philippines	49	300,000	0.00016	0.02
58	Iraq	71	437,072	0.00016	0.02
59	Latvia	10	64,589	0.00015	0.02
60	Hungary	13	93,030	0.00014	0.01
61	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7	51,187	0.00014	0.01
62	Azerbaijan	11	86,600	0.00013	0.01
63	United States	1,110	9,147,593	0.00012	0.01
64	Vietnam	38	329,560	0.00012	0.01
65	Thailand	59	514,000	0.00011	0.01
66	Dominican Republic	5	48,730	0.00010	0.01
67	Panama	8	78,200	0.00010	0.01
68	Poland	31	312,685	0.00010	0.01
69	Jamaica	1	10,831	0.00009	0.01
70	Moldova	3	33,843	0.00009	0.01
71	Oman	18	212,460	0.00008	0.01
72	Bulgaria	7	110,910	0.00006	0.01
73	Ecuador	17	283,560	0.00006	0.01
74	Egypt	60	1,001,450	0.00006	0.01
75	Belarus	12	207,600	0.00006	0.01
76	Lithuania	3	65,200	0.00005	0.00
77	Tunisia	7	163,610	0.00004	0.00
78	Armenia	1	29,800	0.00003	0.00
79	Sri Lanka	2	65,610	0.00003	0.00
80	Chile	23	756,950	0.00003	0.00
81	Pakistan	19	803,940	0.00002	0.00
82	Bhutan	1	47,000	0.00002	0.00
83	Bangladesh	3	144,000	0.00002	0.00
84	Senegal	4	196,190	0.00002	0.00
85	India	62	3,287,590	0.00002	0.00
86	New Zealand	5	268,680	0.00002	0.00
87	Honduras	2	112,090	0.00002	0.00
88	Indonesia	34	1,919,440	0.00002	0.00
89	Togo	1	56,785	0.00002	0.00
90	Cambodia	3	181,040	0.00002	0.00
91	Australia	127	7,686,850	0.00002	0.00
92	Morocco	6	446,550	0.00001	0.00
93	Paraguay	5	406,750	0.00001	0.00
94	Jordan	1	92,300	0.00001	0.00
95	Afghanistan	7	647,500	0.00001	0.00
96	Saudi Arabia	21	1,960,582	0.00001	0.00
97	South Africa	13	1,219,912	0.00001	0.00
98	Canada	102	9,976,140	0.00001	0.00
99	Peru	11	1,285,220	0.00001	0.00
100	Algeria	20	2,381,740	0.00001	0.00
101	Colombia	9	1,138,910	0.00001	0.00
102	Burkina Faso	2	274,200	0.00001	0.00
103	Nepal	1	140,800	0.00001	0.00
104	Argentina	19	2,766,890	0.00001	0.00
105	Brazil	52	8,511,965	0.00001	0.00
106	Cameroon	2	475,440	0.00000	0.00
107	Mexico	8	1,972,550	0.00000	0.00
108	Ivory Coast	1	322,463	0.00000	0.00
109	Nigeria	2	923,768	0.00000	0.00
110	Bolivia	2	1,098,580	0.00000	0.00
111	Ukraine	1	603,700	0.00000	0.00
112	Russia	28	17,075,200	0.00000	0.00
113	Turkey	1	780,580	0.00000	0.00
114	Mongolia	1	1,565,000	0.00000	0.00
115	DR Congo	1	2,267,048	0.00000	0.00