This Tiny Nation Has Only 3 Cases — 13 Others Have None

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Apr 11, 1:00PM EDT

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Confirmed COVID-19 cases have reached 135 million worldwide, and nearly 3 million people have died from the virus. Many scientists believe those figures are far too low because of poor tracking of cases and deaths, particularly in developing nations. The United States has accounted for about 20% of the world’s coronavirus deaths (567,000) and 25% of confirmed cases (31 million.) These figures also may be low because of poor testing efforts and asymptomatic cases.

Five other nations have reported over 4 million cases. Brazil, where the virus is currently out of control, reported 11,998,233 cases, and only 4% of its population has been vaccinated. India reported 11,645,719 cases, and less than 1% of its population has been vaccinated. Russia reported 4,456,869 cases, with about 4% of its population having been vaccinated. The United Kingdom reported 4,296,583 confirmed cases, and about 39% of its population has received at least one dose of vaccine. In France, there have been 4,282,603 confirmed cases, while about 4% of its population has had at least one vaccine dose.

24/7 Wall St. accessed the World Health Organization’s database of reported COVID-19 figures for 237 nations and territories, listing all with fewer than 100 cumulative reported cases as of April 9, 2021. We listed the countries with zero cases in alphabetical order. Only one of these, the Falkland Islands, had any cases reported in the past week (it was just one case.)

One country where the confirmed case count is almost certainly very accurate is Vanuatu. Only three COVID-19 cases have been reported there. The country consists of a series of islands in the South Pacific. It describes itself as “a double chain of 13 principal and many smaller islands in the south-western Pacific Ocean.” The islands were formed by volcanoes and coral.

Vanuatu’s population is estimated at around 300,000. The British and French controlled the country from the late 19th century until recently. It became the Republic of Vanuatu in 1980.

The CIA Factbook indicates that the nation’s gross domestic product (purchasing power parity) was $945 million in 2019, driven largely by agriculture and fishing. Another large source of economic activity is tourism. Over 330,000 people visited in 2017. Obviously, the pandemic has halted that.

According to The Guardian, Vanuatu’s population will not be vaccinated soon:

Despite a tourism-dependent economy devastated by coronavirus shutdowns, Vanuatu’s Covid-19 vaccination program will not inoculate most of its population until the end of 2023.

Isolation likely has protected the population from COVID-19. However, at the same time, the pandemic has crippled the nation’s economy.

Click here to see the tiny nation that has only 3 cases — and 13 others that have none.

Fiji
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 67
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 2
> Population: 896,921
> Region: Western Pacific

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Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 52
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 3,483
> Region: Americas

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Lao People’s Democratic Republic
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 49
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 7,313,433
> Region: Western Pacific

Saint Kitts and Nevis
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 44
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 53,191
> Region: Americas

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Greenland
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 31
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 56,777
> Region: Europe

Holy See
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 26
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 809
> Region: Europe

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Anguilla
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 25
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 15,002
> Region: Americas

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Saint Pierre and Miquelon
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 24
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 5,795
> Region: Americas

Montserrat
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 20
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 1
> Population: 4,999
> Region: Americas

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Sint Eustatius
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 20
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 3,139
> Region: Americas

Solomon Islands
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 19
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 685,921
> Region: Western Pacific

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Saba
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 6
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 1,933
> Region: Americas

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Marshall Islands
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 4
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 59,172
> Region: Western Pacific

Samoa
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 4
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 198,020
> Region: Western Pacific

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Vanuatu
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 3
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 306,122
> Region: Western Pacific

American Samoa
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 0
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 55,312
> Region: Western Pacific

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Cook Islands
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 0
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 8,327
> Region: Western Pacific

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Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 0
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 25,666,161
> Region: South-East Asia

Kiribati
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 0
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 117,606
> Region: Western Pacific

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Micronesia
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 0
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 113,815
> Region: Western Pacific

Nauru
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 0
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 12,581
> Region: Western Pacific

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Niue
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 0
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 1,591
> Region: Western Pacific

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Palau
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 0
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 18,008
> Region: Western Pacific

Pitcairn Islands
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 0
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 54
> Region: Western Pacific

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Tokelau
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 0
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 1,499
> Region: Western Pacific

Tonga
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 0
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 104,494
> Region: Western Pacific

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Turkmenistan
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 0
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 5,942,089
> Region: Europe

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Tuvalu
> Cumulative reported COVID-19 cases: 0
> Cumulative reported COVID-19-related deaths: 0
> Population: 11,646
> Region: Western Pacific

About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.