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Statistics and Research
by Max Roser, Hannah Ritchie, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Joe Hasell

We are grateful to everyone whose editorial review and expert feedback on this work helps us to
continuously improve our work on the pandemic. Thank you. Here you find the
acknowledgements.
The data on the coronavirus pandemic is updated daily. Last update: June 17, 2020 (11:00,
London time).
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Coronavirus
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 Data explorer
 Deaths
 Cases
 Tests
 Mortality risk
 Policy responses
 All charts
You can download our complete – daily updated – Our World in Data COVID-19 Dataset.
Coronavirus Country Profiles
Which countries are doing better and which are doing worse? We built 207 country profiles
which allow you to explore the statistics on the coronavirus pandemic for every country in
the world.
Each profile includes interactive visualizations, explanations of the presented metrics, and the

details on the sources of the data.
Every country profile is updated daily.
Every profile includes four sections
1. Deaths: How many deaths from Coronavirus have been reported? Is the number of
deaths still increasing? How does the death rate compare to other countries?
2. Testing: How much testing for coronavirus do countries conduct? When did they start
and how does it compare with other countries?
3. Cases: How many cases were confirmed? How many tests did a country do to find one
COVID-19 case? And is your country bending the curve?
4. Government responses: What measures did countries take in response to the pandemic?
See how your country is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and how it compares to others:
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Our 12 most visited country profiles
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Germany
 India
 Spain
 France
 Brazil
 Canada
 Australia
 New Zealand
 Sweden
 Mexico
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This is our new Coronavirus Data Explorer. It brings together our global data on testing for
COVID-19, and the counts of confirmed cases and deaths.
Each metric be seen in a straightforward line chart or in our trajectory charts, which align all
countries at the start of the outbreak (here is how to read them). You can also switch to world
maps for every metric, simply choose the Map tab below the chart.
→ Open the Explorer in a new tab.
What the data can and cannot tell us about the pandemic
Without data we can not understand the pandemic. Only based on good data can we know how
the disease is spreading, what impact the pandemic has on the lives of people around the world,
and whether the counter measures countries are taking are successful or not.
But even the best available data on the coronavirus pandemic is far from perfect.
In dedicated pages we present the latest data together with detailed explanations of what we can
learn from this data: where does the data come from? What are the limitations that we need to be
aware of? And what does the data tell us about the coronavirus pandemic?
The global data on the pandemic in detail:
Without testing for the virus there is no data on the pandemic. This is why we made testing
the focus of our research.
Testing for COVID-19: The Our World in Data database
How many cases coronavirus cases has each country reported?

Coronavirus Cases
How many people have died from the coronavirus disease?
Coronavirus Deaths
What do we know about the risk of dying from COVID-19? And what is still unknown?
Mortality Risk of the Coronavirus Disease
How does the death toll during the pandemic compare to what we would otherwise expect?
Excess mortality during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Travel bans, stay-at-home restrictions, school closures – how did countries respond to the
pandemic?
Government Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic
If you want a global overview of the data start here:

The big overview of all of our interactive visualizations on the pandemic.
All our Coronavirus charts on one big page
This interactive slide deck takes you through the most important 20 charts. It is updated
daily.
The Coronavirus Pandemic Slide Deck
We teamed up with our friends from Kurzgesagt to make this video about the COVID-19
pandemic.
The Coronavirus explained in a short video
All our work is free for everyone to use:

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can customize each chart to show the countries and measures you want to write about in
your article.
How to embed our interactive charts in your articles
Information on the data sources we rely on for the pandemic.

Our Data Sources (including the option to download all data)
Our work on the pandemic is trusted by the media and cited by the best researchers. See
where it’s used.
Where our work is used in research and media
‘Data to understand the big global problems and research that helps to make progress
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Our mission at Our World in Data
Risk factors
Our mission at Our World in Data is to provide the research and data on the world’s largest
problems and how to make progress against them.
In recent work we have researched several of the risk factors for the coronavirus disease:
The age structure matters for the outbreak’s health impact. Explore our work on Age
Structure across the world.
Age Structure
Smoking has been linked to COVID-19 as a potential risk factor. Explore our work on
Smoking across the world.
Smoking
Obesity has been linked to COVID-19 as a potential risk factor. Explore our work on
Obesity across the world.
Obesity
Hygiene and hand washing is crucial to preventing the spread of the virus. But not
everyone has access to handwashing facilities. Explore our work on Sanitation across the
world.
Access to handwashing facilities
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Acknowledgements
We would like to acknowledge and thank a number of people in the development of this
work: Carl Bergstrom, Bernadeta Dadonaite, Natalie Dean, Jason Hendry, Adam
Kucharski, Moritz Kraemer and Eric Topol for their very helpful and detailed comments and
suggestions on earlier versions of this work. Tom Chivers we would like to thank for his
editorial review and feedback.
And we would like to thank the many hundreds of readers who give us feedback on this work
every day. Your feedback is what allows us to continuously clarify and improve it. We very
much appreciate you taking the time to write. We cannot respond to every message we receive,
but we do read all feedback and aim to take the many helpful ideas into account. Thank you all.
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Max Roser, Hannah Ritchie, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Joe Hasell (2020) - "Coronavirus
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@article{owidcoronavirus,
author = {Max Roser, Hannah Ritchie, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Joe Hasell},
title = {Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)},
journal = {Our World in Data},
year = {2020},
note = {https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus}
}
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Coronavirus Country Profiles

Each profile includes interactive visualizations, explanations of the presented metrics, and the

Every country profile is updated daily.

Every profile includes four sections

Search for a country...

Our 12 most visited country profiles

→ Open the Explorer in a new tab.

How many cases coronavirus cases has each country reported?

If you want a global overview of the data start here:

All our work is free for everyone to use:

Information on the data sources we rely on for the pandemic.

Our work belongs to everyone

Download the complete Our World in Data COVID-19 dataset

 All our code is open-source

Reuse our work freely

All of our charts can be embedded in any site.

Our World in Data is free and accessible for everyone.

Help us do this work by making a donation.

Please consult our full legal disclaimer.

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