COVID-19 Data Repositories
Reliable pandemic statistics, including data on prevalence, mortality, economic impact, and more.
Johns Hopkins University, based in Baltimore, MD, USA, has created a database of prevalence and mortality of COVID-19 for nation states globally accessible through a simple search bar.
The World Health Organization coordinates international health efforts within the United Nations system. This links to the COVID-19 Dashboard with the latest statistical information available from the WHO.
Africa CDC is a specialized technical institution of the African Union established to support public health initiatives. This links to their dashboard for epidemiologic updates and public health best practices.
These Global COVID-19 dashboards are mobile-friendly visualizations of pandemicrelated statistics across several African countries that were compiled by a South African PhD student.
The COVID-19 Africa Overview was created by Wits University and the South African National Research Foundation. It serves as a monitoring tool of the development of the coronavirus to provide predictions for the spread and impact in Africa.
The Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister analytics organization of “The Economist” magazine based in London, U.K., has created a COVID-19 Health Funding Tracker. This tracker synthesizes funding efforts pledged and disbursed to provide an independent record of which funders are funding which aspects of the global health response.
The Africa COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Index assesses 7 kinds of vulnerability in 48 African countries, including population age, strength of healthcare systems, and more. The index is produced by the Surgo Foundation, a privately funded action tank in Washington, D.C., USA.