Grade level: 3rd – 5th grades
Skills: Bar graphs
Related environmental issues: COVID-19
Six months have passed since the COVID-19 was declared as a pandemic. The bar graph below shows the number of COVID-19 deaths per one million population of selected countries as of September 11, 2020.
- Which country had the most COVID-19 deaths per one million polulation?
- Which country had more COVID-19 deaths, Mexico or Spain?
- Per one million population, about how many people died from COVID-19 in the United States?
- The population of the United States is about 330 million. About how many people died from COVID-19 in the United States as of September 11, 2020?
Source) Real Clear Politics (September 11, 2020) Coronavirus (COVID-19) Global Death
Answer keys
- Peru
- Spain
- About 600
- About 198,000 (600 x 330 = 198,000)
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