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]}

6,985,265^[1] (updated 6 December 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[edit | edit source]

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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.

Graph showing the daily count of new confirmed deaths worldwide.[4][note 1][note 2]

See the date on the timeline at the bottom.

Graph of daily new confirmed deaths worldwide per million people.[5][note 1][note 2]

See the date on the timeline at the bottom.

Timeline of weekly deaths worldwide[edit | edit source]

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]

See the date on the timeline at the bottom.

Scientific analysis[edit | edit source]

Global excess and reported COVID-19 deaths and death rates per 100,000 population according to the WHO study^[7]

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]

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  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]

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  Excess deaths relative to expected deaths (global and WHO region)^[7]

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  The 25 countries with the highest total estimated COVID-19 pandemic excess deaths between January 2020 and December 2021^[7]

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  The 25 countries with the highest mean P-scores (excess deaths relative to expected deaths)^[7]

Maps of deaths by country[edit | edit source]

Data is from the COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.^{[note 1]}

Map of total confirmed deaths per million people by country.[15][note 1][note 2]

See date at top of map.

Map of total confirmed deaths by country.[16][note 1][note 2]

See date at top of map.

See also[edit | edit source]

• List of epidemics
• List of deaths due to COVID-19 – notable individual deaths
• COVID-19 vaccine
• Deployment of COVID-19 vaccines

Notes[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

External links[edit | edit source]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Deaths from COVID-19.

• COVID-19 Risk Factors Archived 31 May 2023 at the Wayback Machine