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  1. COVID-19 Pandemic

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    … data on COVID-19 Research & Writing Key data on the COVID-19 pandemic More articles on the COVID-19 pandemic …

  2. Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations

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    The Imperial College London YouGov Covid-19 Behaviour Tracker Data Hub has gathered global insights on people’s behaviors in …

  3. Coronavirus (COVID-19) Deaths

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    Let’s take a look at two concrete examples of national guidance: the United States’s guidance (in the CDC …

  4. Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases

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    * The doctor or laboratory diagnoses a COVID-19 case based on testing or a combination of symptoms and epidemiological …

  5. How do death rates from COVID-19 differ between people who are vaccinated and those who are not?

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    MaxDevBlock Liechtenstein Federal Office of Public Health Hospitalizations + deaths, by vaccine type Malaysia Ministry of Health Cases, deaths Northern Ireland …

  6. Excess mortality during the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19)

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    The chart in the previous section showed P-scores for all ages — these are affected by differences in the mortality …

  7. Mortality Risk of COVID-19

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    … rather than as a single unchanging value. The CFR of COVID-19 differs by location, and has changed during the …

  8. Coronavirus (COVID-19) Hospitalizations

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    Note that this is different from the weekly number of people newly admitted to ICU due to COVID-19. You …

  9. What is the COVID-19 Stringency Index?

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    Since government policies may differ by vaccination status, a stringency index is calculated for three categories: those who are vaccinated …

  10. 17 key charts to understand the COVID-19 pandemic

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    Restrictions on public gatherings and requirements for wearing facial coverings were also common. You can see these in the two …

  11. Our World in Data will rely on data from the WHO to track confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths

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    An archive of the last version (8 March 2023) of our dataset based on data from Johns Hopkins University is …

  12. June 24, 2024

    COVID-19 was the third largest cause of death in 2021

    Data Insight
    … month by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) — COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in …

  13. How epidemiological models of COVID-19 help us estimate the true number of infections

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    https://covid19.healthdata.org/ Regions covered 159 countries and territories across the world including subnational data for the US and …

  14. Key lessons from our work on the COVID-19 pandemic are now published in Lancet Public Health

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    … and achievable. Some countries implemented most of them during the COVID-19 pandemic. More public agencies and organizations following these …

  15. The Our World in Data COVID-19 vaccination dataset has been published in the academic journal, Nature Human Behaviour

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    … our article in Nature Human Behaviour: A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations The latest global data on COVID vaccination …

  16. Our World in Data is now tracking Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccinations across the world

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    All of our work at Our World in Data is open-access and free for everyone to use. Our work …

  17. July 08, 2024

    The global malaria death rate increased for the first time in 20 years due to COVID-19

    Data Insight
    The death rate from malaria has gradually decreased since 2004, but disruption to healthcare programs caused by the COVID-19 …

  18. How our team at Our World in Data became a global data source on COVID-19

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    The chart below shows cumulative testing rates across countries and clarifies which indicators are used. Our team spent many months …

  19. Emerging COVID-19 success story: Vietnam's commitment to containment

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    As of May 1, a hundred days into the outbreak, Vietnam had confirmed just 270 cases, despite extensive testing, and …

  20. The Our World in Data COVID-19 Testing dataset has been published in the academic journal, Nature Scientific Data

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    Please cite the dataset as: Hasell, J., Mathieu, E., Beltekian, D. et al. A cross-country database of COVID-19 …

  21. Why do COVID-19 deaths in Sweden's official data always appear to decrease?

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    This results in a daily figure that corresponds to the number of cases or deaths reported in the last 24 …

  22. Attitudes to COVID-19 vaccinations

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    The Imperial College London YouGov Covid-19 Behaviour Tracker Data Hub has gathered global insights on people’s behaviors in …

  23. We teamed up with Kurzgesagt to make a video about the COVID-19 pandemic

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    It was published 3.5 days ago and already has now more than 13 million views. We hope providing information …

  24. Our World in Data switches to Johns Hopkins University as our main data source for COVID-19 cases and deaths

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    … possible. The format (variable names and types) of our complete COVID-19 dataset remains the same — this should prevent any …

  25. Future updates of our data on COVID-19

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    Other relevant links GitHub repository This is where we developed all our work on COVID-19 from early 2020 until …

  26. Ending our COVID-19 testing data updates

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    These sources, however, face the same limitations as our dataset in terms of cross-country comparability. ---------------------------------------- Acknowledgments We thank the …

  27. How to read the famous coronavirus trajectory chart — video explainer

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    Charts and data visualizations have become essential in tracking the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak across the world. They have become …

  28. Best practices for governments reporting COVID-19 testing data

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    Test kits that have only been dispatched and not yet used should be reported separately from tests with, or pending …

  29. May 09, 2024

    Testing rates for polio have rebounded after a drop amid the COVID-19 pandemic

    Data Insight
    … the limbs. As shown in the chart, disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic led to a drop in polio testing …

  30. September 09, 2024

    COVID-19 raised respiratory infection death rates to levels not seen in many decades

    Data Insight
    … us to look back and see the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from a historical perspective. As you can …

  31. Coronavirus (COVID-19) Testing

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    At-home self-tests are widely available in many countries, and may be included if they are reported nationally. Typically …

  32. A pandemic primer on excess mortality statistics and their comparability across countries

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    For Canada, estimates suggest 81 percent of Covid-19 deaths were among residents in long-term care, but comparable estimates …

  33. October 28, 2024

    Life expectancy is returning to pre-pandemic levels

    Data Insight
    Life expectancy at birth dropped significantly across the world in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However …

  34. Google Mobility Trends: How has the pandemic changed the movement of people around the world?

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    * The Residential category shows a change in duration—the other categories measure a change in total visitors. You should …

  35. Poverty

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    … conducted within three years of the reference year. During the COVID-19 pandemic, coverage rules had to be adjusted. Estimates …

  36. Causes of Death

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    … certificates. * This chart shows data on causes of death globally for 2019, the year before the Covid-19 pandemic started.

  37. Energy Production and Consumption

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    … 2009 following the financial crisis, and 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Global energy consumption continues to grow, but …

  38. Child and Infant Mortality

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    … causes of death globally for 2019, the year before the Covid-19 pandemic started. Children are most at risk during …

  39. Cancer

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    … vary between countries and dropped in several countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. These differences can result in differences in …

  40. Malaria

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    … increased in 2020 as a result of disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic.1 Africa is the world region that …

Charts

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  1. Estimated cumulative excess deaths during COVID-19 Non-Explorer, single-entity version
  2. COVID-19 vaccine doses administered by manufacturer
  3. Weekly new hospital admissions for COVID-19 per million
  4. Daily new estimated infections of COVID-19
  5. Share of people who completed the initial COVID-19 vaccination protocol
  6. Daily share of the population receiving a COVID-19 vaccine dose
  7. United States: COVID-19 weekly death rate by vaccination status
  8. Cumulative confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths
  9. Daily confirmed COVID-19 deaths by world region
  10. Weekly confirmed COVID-19 cases
  11. Daily confirmed COVID-19 cases by world region Stacked area chart – by world region
  12. Total COVID-19 tests per 1,000 people Line chart
  13. Number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care (ICU)
  14. Cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths vs. cases
  15. COVID-19 testing policies
  16. Willingness to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by month
  17. Estimated cumulative excess deaths during COVID, from the WHO
  18. Economic decline in the second quarter of 2020 vs. total confirmed COVID-19 deaths (as of August 2020)
  19. COVID-19: Countries restricting gatherings of a given number of people
  20. Daily new estimated COVID-19 infections from the ICL model
  21. Total COVID-19 vaccine doses administered per 100 people
  22. Share of people who received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine Line chart
  23. Weekly confirmed COVID-19 deaths
  24. Number of people who completed the initial COVID-19 vaccination protocol
  25. COVID-19: Where are the world's unvaccinated people?
  26. Cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths by world region
  27. Total number of people who received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine
  28. Weekly new hospital admissions for COVID-19
  29. The share of COVID-19 tests that are positive
  30. Cumulative confirmed COVID-19 cases by world region By Region
  31. Week by week change of confirmed COVID-19 deaths
  32. Total COVID-19 vaccine doses administered
  33. Estimated cumulative excess deaths per 100,000 people during COVID, from The Economist
  34. Daily COVID-19 vaccine doses administered
  35. Weekly confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people
  36. England: COVID-19 monthly death rate by vaccination status
  37. COVID-19 vaccination coverage worldwide Marimekko
  38. Number of COVID-19 patients in hospital per million
  39. Number of COVID-19 patients in hospital
  40. Total COVID-19 tests per confirmed case Bar chart

Data Explorers

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Interactive visualization tools to explore a wide range of related indicators.

COVID-19 Data Explorer

Explore global data on COVID-19.

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  • Reproduction rate‍

    Median number of new infections caused by a single infected individual. If the rate is greater than 1, the infection is able to spread in the population. If it is below 1, the number of cases occurring in the population will gradually decrease to zero.

  • Positive test rate‍

    The daily number of confirmed cases divided by the daily number of tests, expressed as a percentage. Tests may refer to the number of tests performed or the number of people tested - depending on which is reported by the particular country.

  • Estimated cumulative excess deaths per 100,000 people during COVID-19‍

    For countries that have not reported all-cause mortality data for a given week, an estimate is shown, with uncertainty interval. If reported data is available, that value only is shown. On the map, only the central estimate is shown.

  • Vaccine doses (per 100)‍

    Total number of COVID-19 vaccination doses administered per 100 people in the total population.

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Global Health Data Explorer

Explore data on child and maternal health, diseases, life expectancy, and health systems around the world.

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