University of Oxford and Global Change Data Lab’s Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) Our World in Data research and statistics site provides detailed country profiles and global comparison data that is updated daily.
Country Profiles
For every country profile (207 in total) you can explore the data via interactive visualizations, with explanations of the data.
Every profile includes these four sections (directly quoted):
- 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?
- Testing: How much testing for coronavirus do countries conduct? When did they start and how does it compare with other countries?
- 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?
- Government responses: What measures did countries take in response to the pandemic?
New Coronavirus Data Explorer
The new Coronavirus Data Explorer brings together global data on testing for COVID-19, and the counts of confirmed cases and deaths, where you can view the data in a straightforward line chart or in a trajectory chart and also view in world map format for every metric.
These breakout pages provide global data on the pandemic in detail (mostly directly quoted):
- Testing for COVID-19 – Without testing for the virus there is no data on the pandemic.
- Coronavirus Cases – How many cases coronavirus cases has each country reported?
- Coronavirus Deaths – How many people have died from the coronavirus disease? What do we know about the risk of dying from COVID-19? And what is still unknown?
- Mortality Risk of the Coronavirus Disease – What is known, and what is still unknown, about the risk of dying from COVID-19?
- Excess mortality during the Coronavirus Pandemic – How does the death toll during the pandemic compare to what we would otherwise expect?
- Government Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic – Travel bans, stay-at-home restrictions, school closures – how did countries respond to the pandemic?
Data is Free and Sources are Clearly Explained
All the data is free for everyone to use and data sources are clearly explained.
Collaborative Effort
Our World in Data is a collaborative effort between researchers at the University of Oxford, based at the Oxford Martin Programme on Global Development, who are the website scientific editors; and the non-profit organization Global Change Data Lab, who publishes and maintains the website and the data tools.
