Since you bring up India as of 23 January 2022,
( 489,409 "officially dead from Covid" Indians / 1,380,004,385 Indians ) x 100 = 0.035 %
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/india
If the percentage deaths were commensurate with population between the US and India, given the USA as model, India should have experienced about 3,615,000 deaths, which would have attracted attention, it is assured. That would a huge amount of "poor reporting and recording."
Given that the USA is champion in the deaths/population by far, it is likely that your description fits as well -- "poor reporting and recording."
Generally the northern European nations have far less deaths as a function than the US, which brings me back to a singular conclusion
The Fauci-Collins led pandemic response in the US has been the WORST in the world, and other reasons are there to consider, such as the CDC "protocol," suppression of any therapeutics by the FDA early on, and more.
As people try to somehow defend the US data and resultant policies, including economically destructive lockdowns, the anomalies seem to heighten, not lessen.
Fauci annoys me even more because I heard he is the highest paid bureaucrat in DC.