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The data on the coronavirus pandemic is updated daily. Last update: June 17, 2020 (11:00,
London time).
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You can download our complete – daily updated – Our World in Data COVID-19 Dataset.
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.
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:
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
India
Spain
France
Brazil
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Sweden
Mexico
Compare countries
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.
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
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
We teamed up with our friends from Kurzgesagt to make this video about the COVID-19
pandemic.
The Coronavirus explained in a short video
‘Data to understand the big global problems and research that helps to make progress
against them.’
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
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.
You can use all of what you find here for your own research or writing. We license all charts
under Creative Commons BY.
Citation
Our articles and data visualizations rely on work from many different people and organizations.
When citing this entry, please also cite the underlying data sources. This entry can be cited as:
Max Roser, Hannah Ritchie, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Joe Hasell (2020) - "Coronavirus
Pandemic (COVID-19)". Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from:
'https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus' [Online Resource]
BibTeX citation
@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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