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With its corona management, Germany only ends up in the middle field in an international comparison.
A study by the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, published on Thursday puts the Federal Republic in 55th place out of 98 countries.
New Zealand performed best, with Brazil coming in last.
"Some countries handled the pandemic better than others - but most countries only outperformed each other by poor performance," the researchers said.
The independent institute assessed the countries' handling of the pandemic after their hundredth confirmed case based on six criteria - including the number of infections and deaths and the test frequency.
In addition to New Zealand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand, Cyprus, Rwanda, Iceland, Australia, Latvia and Sri Lanka made it into the top ten of the ranking.
New Zealand had managed to largely keep the spread of the virus in check through border closings, early and hard lockdowns and extensive corona tests.
Brazil ranks last with more than 218,000 corona deaths.
Mexico (97th place), Colombia (96th), Iran (95) and the USA (94) performed similarly poorly.
Populist heads of state, Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump, were in power in Brazil and the USA last year, who, according to critics, played down the threat posed by the pandemic.
Both of them repeatedly made fun of wearing masks, refused lockdowns, and infected themselves with the virus.
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China, where the corona virus first appeared, does not appear in the country comparison by the Lowy Institute.
According to the researchers, insufficient public data was available for the country.
Smaller nations got through the pandemic better
Countries were divided into broad categories for comparison - by region, political system, population size, and economic development - to determine whether there were significant differences in pandemic response between different types of states.
According to the Lowy Institute, the performance of the countries in the ranking is independent of their respective political system.
However, smaller nations with fewer than ten million inhabitants appear to have gotten through the pandemic better.
"Generally speaking, countries with smaller populations, societies with cohesion and capable institutions have a comparative advantage in dealing with a global crisis like a pandemic," the report said.
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Regarding the regions, the institute writes: "Although the coronavirus outbreak began in China, countries in the Asia-Pacific region proved, on average, to be the most successful in containing the pandemic."
Since the pandemic began in December 2019, more than 100 million people worldwide have been infected with the corona virus, and around 2.2 million people have died after being infected with corona.