You have to compare apples to app!es. Either compare case fatality rates OR compare deaths per population. Both are valuable information, but they measure different parameters.
What is the case fatality rate for influenza?
Right now there is no meaningful Case Fatality Rate (to use the “official terminology”) as there are not enough resolved cases to provide sufficient data.
For example, the Case Fatality Rate in India is 0% as all 3 cases there resolved without any deaths. In the Philippines, however, of the 3 cases, one recovered, one died and one is unresolved, so the Case Fatality Rate is 33% but could jump to 67% without a change in the number of affected. That’s why it isn’t useful to try and calculate that with too little time for cases to resolve in large numbers.
However, we *can* calculate a sort of instantaneous CFR for the Philippines as 50% (1 dead, 1 recovered), South Korea as 31.25% (10 dead, 22 recovered), Iran as 100% (16 deaths, 0 recoveries), Italy 87.5% (7 deaths, 1 recovery). Those numbers look pretty bad, but that is the nature of small data sets. All of those numbers should drop, eventually approaching something like 2% except where the medical infrastructure breaks down (like in Wuhan) where the numbers will be significantly higher. And also, Iran, where we can expect a 600% CFR due to the propensity of the powers that be to multiply things by random numbers for political effect.
As for the Mortality Rate (”official terminology”) right now it is at pretty close to zero. Of 8+ billion people in the world, only some 2700 or so have died from the corona virus (official WHO numbers).