Some good info here from The Economist - they’re looking at excess deaths in countries where the COVID-19 pandemic has hit:

economist.com

This is an interesting little tidbit:

Outside western Europe and the Americas, only a handful of places release data about excess deaths. No such information exists for large swathes of Africa and Asia, where most civil registries only produce annual statistics after a considerable delay, and certificates for many deaths are never issued at all. Among countries where we have found national data on excess deaths, the biggest difference from official statistics has been in Russia—which recorded about 83,000 more fatalities than usual between April and July, compared with an official covid-19 toll of 14,000.

Yikes.