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

Johns Hopkins University has been at the forefront of collecting and reporting data on confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths since the outbreak began in 2020. However, it recently announced that it would stop updating its data on 10 March 2023.

Our team at Our World in Data recognizes the importance of up-to-date data on the pandemic. We will switch our primary source to the World Health Organization (WHO), which updates its dataset weekly.

To keep this data consistent over time, we will replace the entire time series with WHO data on 8 March 2023.

Our goal is to continue providing the most complete and timely data on the pandemic, and relying on the WHO data is the best way to achieve this.

This change will be seamless for our users. The URL of all our charts and the variable names in our dataset will remain the same.

All other COVID-19 datasets we maintain will remain unchanged.

An archive of the last version (8 March 2023) of our dataset based on data from Johns Hopkins University is available for download here (CSV file, 69 Mo).

We want to take this opportunity to thank the team at Johns Hopkins for their crucial work since the beginning of the pandemic. Their efforts have been invaluable in helping us understand the impact of this virus across the world.

Edouard Mathieu and Lucas Rodés-Guirao (2023) - “Our World in Data will rely on data from the WHO to track confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths” Published online at OurWorldinData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/covid-jhu-who' [Online Resource]

@article{owid-covid-jhu-who,
    author = {Edouard Mathieu and Lucas Rodés-Guirao},
    title = {Our World in Data will rely on data from the WHO to track confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths},
    journal = {Our World in Data},
    year = {2023},
    note = {https://ourworldindata.org/covid-jhu-who}
}

Reuse this work freely

All visualizations, data, and code produced by Our World in Data are completely open access under the Creative Commons BY license. You have the permission to use, distribute, and reproduce these in any medium, provided the source and authors are credited.

The data produced by third parties and made available by Our World in Data is subject to the license terms from the original third-party authors. We will always indicate the original source of the data in our documentation, so you should always check the license of any such third-party data before use and redistribution.

All of our charts can be embedded in any site.