This article contains the monthly cumulative number of deaths from the pandemic of 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.

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 has caused between 19.1 and 36 million deaths.

The latest numbers of cases, deaths, and death rates can be found in COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country. More international statistics, in table, graph, and map forms, are shown in COVID-19 pandemic by country.

The COVID-19 pandemic is the worst worldwide calamity experienced on a large scale (with an estimated 7.1 million confirmed deaths) in the 21st century. The COVID-19 death toll is the highest seen on a global scale since HIV/AIDS, the Spanish flu and World War II.

Timelines of daily deaths worldwide

Graphs below show data from the COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University as rolling seven-day averages. COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. See How to Use our Data for more info and links. See: Pandemic Data Initiative. See more sourcing history and info.

Graph showing the daily count of new confirmed deaths worldwide 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.

Graph of daily new confirmed deaths worldwide per million people 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. 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 deaths worldwide

The graph below shows data from the COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

Graph showing the weekly count of new confirmed deaths worldwide 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.

Maps of deaths by country Data shown in the below images is from the COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

Map of total confirmed deaths per million people by countryWorld map of cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people. From Our World in Data.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) at Johns Hopkins University. See Coronavirus Source Data for more OWID sourcing info.

Map of total confirmed deaths by countryWorld map of total confirmed COVID-19 deaths by country. From Our World in Data.

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).

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.

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.News article about the study: 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). Further research may help distinguish the proportions directly caused by COVID-19 from those caused by indirect consequences of the pandemic.

Cumulative monthly death totals by country

2020