The only guess I can come to P.E. is that far more are tested in the United Kingdom, than in other lands.
So, almost certainly in other countries there are many millions who have had some sort of covid but these persons are not counted.
Yesterday France has eleven times fewer covid positive cases than U.K. and eleven times fewer deaths.
This to me seems strange, similar populations with a shared tunnel, so our very near friends, yet completely different recent figures.
The U.K. is of course much more densely populated, so more prone to disease.
We got the Delta earlier, as millions of people cross from India to U.K. every year.
But U.K. now has more covid cases than even India. India has one and a quarter billion people, it makes you think – apples and oranges.