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Weekly confirmed COVID-19 cases per million people

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Source
World Health Organization (2024); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Last updated
October 31, 2024
Next expected update
December 2024
Unit
cases per million people

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

Daily COVID-19 cases and deaths by date reported to WHO

Retrieved on
October 31, 2024
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
WHO COVID-19 Dashboard. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2020. Available online: https://covid19.who.int/

Our World in Data builds and maintains a long-run dataset on population by country, region, and for the world, based on various sources.

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Retrieved on
July 11, 2024
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
The long-run data on population is based on various sources, described on this page: https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources

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Notes on our processing step for this indicator

This indicator is estimated by normalizing by population. We have used daily population estimates, which leads to changes in the denominator between datapoints from different days. For instance, the denominator for January 1st will be different to the one on January 2nd.

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Citations

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“Data Page: Weekly confirmed COVID-19 cases per million people”. Our World in Data (2024). Data adapted from World Health Organization, Various sources. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/weekly-covid-cases-per-million-people [online resource]
How to cite this data

In-line citationIf you have limited space (e.g. in data visualizations), you can use this abbreviated in-line citation:

World Health Organization (2024); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data

Full citation

World Health Organization (2024); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Weekly confirmed COVID-19 cases per million people” [dataset]. World Health Organization, “COVID-19 Dashboard WHO COVID-19 Dashboard - Daily cases and deaths”; Various sources, “Population” [original data]. Retrieved October 31, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/weekly-covid-cases-per-million-people