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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPer capita the US does not lead the world in testing as Trump claims. We are ranked 41st
The US is 41st in testing per capita with only 29,000 tests per million people compared to Iceland which tests 160,000 per million https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
And Iceland isn't even number one. It's the Faeroe Islands. LOL with 175,000 tests per million. No, they don't have a million people but you get the idea.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
brewens
(13,582 posts)for two.
Quixote1818
(28,930 posts)elleng
(130,891 posts)but he states it in front of the media and it is rerun ad infinitum.
Celerity
(43,333 posts)if you subtract out all nations under 1 million, it is 30th
Tests per million
Iceland 160,563 (smallest on the list at 364,000, I note the few (only 4) under 1 million)
UAE 151,662
Bahrain 115,263
Malta 101,136 (almost half a million, 493,559) (2019)
Luxembourg 90,089 (625,000 population )
Lithuania 70,671
Cyprus 63,062
Denmark 57,709
Mauritius 54,863
Portugal 54,317
Israel 54,277
Spain 52,781
Belgium 51,385
Estonia 48,981
Qatar 46,960
Kuwait 45,988
Italy 44,221
Ireland 43,493
Latvia 41,908
New Zealand 40,870
Russia 39,781
Norway 37,858
Brunei 36,658 (around 437,479)
Switzerland 36,611
Austria 36,564
Australia 34,429
Germany 32,891
Slovenia 31,048
Belarus 30,102
Canada 30,099
Singapore 30,016
UK 29,566
Czechia 29,334
USA 29,268
the micro states that are higher than the US
Faeroe Islands 175,061
Gibraltar 123,327
Falkland Islands 115,517
San Marino 91,981
Bermuda 72,080
Cayman Islands 63,708
Isle of Man 44,371
Channel Islands 30,725