COVID-19 pandemic deaths
This article contains the monthly cumulative number of deaths from the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) reported by each country, territory, and subnational area to the World Health Organization (WHO) and published in WHO reports, tables, and spreadsheets. There are also maps and timeline graphs of daily and weekly deaths worldwide.[note 1][note 2]
6,951,664[1] (updated 23 July 2023) confirmed COVID-induced deaths have been reported worldwide. As of January 2023, taking into account likely COVID induced deaths via excess deaths, the 95% confidence interval suggests the pandemic to have caused between 16 and 28.2 million deaths.[2][3] For the latest daily updates of cases, deaths, and death rates see COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country. For even more international statistics in table, graph, and map form see COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory.
Timelines of daily deaths worldwide
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Data for the graphs is from the COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.[note 1] Rolling 7-day average.
Timeline of weekly deaths worldwide
Data for the graph is from the COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.[note 1]
Graph showing the weekly count of new confirmed deaths worldwide.[6][note 1][note 2] |
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Scientific analysis
A December 2022 WHO study comprehensively estimated excess deaths from the pandemic during 2020 and 2021, concluding ~14.8 million excess early deaths occurred, reaffirming their prior calculations from May as well as updating them, addressing criticisms. These numbers do not include measures like years of potential life lost, far exceeding the 5.42 million officially reported deaths for that timeframe, may make the pandemic 2021's leading cause of death, and are similar to the ~18 million estimated by another study (see below).[8][9][7]
In October 2020, a group of scientists, including those from the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, published an analysis of the all-cause mortality effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic for 21 industrialised countries – including its timing, demographics and excess deaths per capita – and assessed determinants for substantial variations in death rates such as the countries' pandemic preparedness and management.[10][11]
An analysis published in The Lancet in March 2022 by Wang et al. suggests up to 18 million lives may have been lost to the pandemic.[12][13] Such deaths also include, for example, deaths due to healthcare capacity constraints and priorities, as well as reluctance to seek care (to avoid possible infection).[14] Further research may help distinguish the proportions directly caused by COVID-19 from those caused by indirect consequences of the pandemic.[13]
- Excess deaths relative to expected deaths (the patterns indicate the quality of the all-cause mortality data that were available for each respective country)[7]
- Excess deaths relative to expected deaths (global and WHO region)[7]
- The 25 countries with the highest total estimated COVID-19 pandemic excess deaths between January 2020 and December 2021[7]
- The 25 countries with the highest mean P-scores (excess deaths relative to expected deaths)[7]
Maps of deaths by country
Data is from the COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.[note 1]
See also
- List of epidemics
- List of deaths due to COVID-19 – notable individual deaths
- COVID-19 vaccine
- Deployment of COVID-19 vaccines
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "CSSEGISandData/COVID-19". GitHub. 7 September 2022. Archived from the original on 19 March 2020. Retrieved 8 May 2023. COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. See How to Use our Data Archived 2 May 2023 at the Wayback Machine for more info and links. See: Pandemic Data Initiative Archived 5 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine. See more sourcing history and info Archived 8 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Our World in Data (OWID) maps and graphs on cases and deaths. Click on the download tab to download the image. The table tab has a table of the exact data by country. The image at the source is interactive and provides more detail. For example, for maps run your cursor over the color bar legend to see the countries that apply to that point in the legend. For graphs run your cursor over the graph for more info. The sources tab there links to: COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) Archived 19 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine at Johns Hopkins University. See Coronavirus Source Data Archived 31 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine for more OWID sourcing info.
References
- ↑ Ritchie, Hannah; Mathieu, Edouard; Rodés-Guirao, Lucas; Appel, Cameron; Giattino, Charlie; Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban; Hasell, Joe; Macdonald, Bobbie; Beltekian, Diana; Dattani, Saloni; Roser, Max (2020–2022). "Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)". Our World in Data. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
- ↑ "The pandemic's true death toll". The Economist. Archived from the original on 17 December 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
- ↑ Ritchie, Hannah; Mathieu, Edouard; Rodés-Guirao, Lucas; Appel, Cameron; Giattino, Charlie; Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban; Hasell, Joe; Macdonald, Bobbie; Beltekian, Diana; Roser, Max. "Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)". Our World in Data. Archived from the original on 15 November 2022. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
- ↑ "Timeline of daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths worldwide". Our World in Data. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved 8 May 2023. COVID-19 Data Explorer. Rolling 7-day average. The table tab has exact numbers by country. Drag its timeline for numbers by date. The graph at the source is interactive and provides more detail.
- ↑ "Timeline of daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths worldwide per million people". Our World in Data. Archived from the original on 11 June 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2023. COVID-19 Data Explorer. Rolling 7-day average. The table tab has exact numbers by country. Drag its timeline for numbers by date. The graph at the source is interactive and provides more detail. For example; run your cursor over the graph for the date and rate. Multiply that rate number times the world population at the time. Then divide by a million to get the confirmed deaths for that day. For example; the Jan 26, 2021 daily peak of 1.89 deaths per million people times the world population that year from this source Archived 3 October 2022 at the Wayback Machine. The 2020 population was listed as 7,794,798,739. Divide that by a million to get 7,794. Multiply that by 1.89 to get 14,731 deaths that day. The actual number of confirmed deaths may be higher or lower that day since the graph is using a rolling 7-day average.
- ↑ "Timeline of weekly new confirmed COVID-19 deaths worldwide". Our World in Data. Archived from the original on 7 March 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2023. COVID-19 Data Explorer. The map and table tabs have exact numbers by country. Drag the table timeline for country numbers by date. The graph at the source is interactive and provides more detail by date.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Msemburi, William; Karlinsky, Ariel; Knutson, Victoria; Aleshin-Guendel, Serge; Chatterji, Somnath; Wakefield, Jon (January 2023). "The WHO estimates of excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic". Nature. 613 (7942): 130–137. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05522-2. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 36517599. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- ↑ "Nearly 15 million excess deaths occurred globally in 2020 and 2021". New Scientist. Archived from the original on 17 January 2023. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ↑ "Globale Übersterblichkeit durch COVID-19". www.sciencemediacenter.de. Archived from the original on 17 January 2023. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ↑ Sample, Ian (14 October 2020). "Covid-19: England and Wales among highest per capita death tolls". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 7 November 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
- ↑ Kontis, Vasilis; Bennett, James E.; Rashid, Theo; Parks, Robbie M.; Pearson-Stuttard, Jonathan; Guillot, Michel; Asaria, Perviz; Zhou, Bin; Battaglini, Marco; Corsetti, Gianni; McKee, Martin; Di Cesare, Mariachiara; Mathers, Colin D.; Ezzati, Majid (14 October 2020). "Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialized countries". Nature Medicine. 26 (12): 1919–1928. doi:10.1038/s41591-020-1112-0. ISSN 1546-170X. PMID 33057181. S2CID 222838346.
- ↑ Campbell, Denis (10 March 2022). "Global Covid-19 death toll 'may be three times higher than official figures'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
- 1 2 Wang, Haidong; et al. (April 2022). "Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020–21". Lancet. 399 (10334): 1513–1536. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02796-3. PMC 8912932. PMID 35279232.
News article about the study: Adam D (March 2022). "COVID's true death toll: much higher than official records". Nature. 603 (7902): 562. Bibcode:2022Natur.603..562A. doi:10.1038/d41586-022-00708-0. PMID 35277684. S2CID 247407282. - ↑ "What 'Excess Deaths' Do and Don't Tell Us About COVID-19". Reason. 29 April 2020. Archived from the original on 14 May 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ↑ World map of cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people Archived 19 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine. From Our World in Data.
- ↑ World map of total confirmed COVID-19 deaths by country Archived 18 October 2021 at the Wayback Machine. From Our World in Data.
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