When you look at death rates, should you not look at closed cases? Otherwise you are comparing apples and oranges, deaths are closed (numerator), your denominator should be closed as well. Here is what those numbers look like, world meter, I know China website that can't be trusted but it is the same info as US websites.. World probable less because of less reported deaths because of covid. I'm not saying these numbers are right or wrong, just showing the data that is out there.