As the Covid-19 coronavirus continues to spread around the globe it has affected different countries in different ways. The severity of outbreaks depends on many country-specific factors, such as how early the pandemic hit, the country’s healthcare system and government responses.
Here you can see an approximation of the epidemic curves for most countries based on data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and compiled by Our World in Data.
It’s an approximation only, as it uses the date of reporting for cases and not the date of illness onset. This also means there are spikes in some areas – like in the China data – that relate to a single large report of cases.
The charts show which countries have managed to suppress the virus, which countries are only now being hit badly, and which countries are experiencing a second wave of infections.
The default view is intended for comparing each country’s curve against the rest. Rather than using a log scale to do this, each small chart is scaled depending on the maximum value for that country. Bars are coloured to give a visual indication of where values are higher or lower compared with the global minimum and maximum.
You can also change the default view to scale all charts using the maximum daily value for all countries.
Update: You can now also group the countries by continent, region, and World Bank income categories.
Here’s the same chart format, but for confirmed coronavirus deaths:
