How is the data collected? ECDC’s copyright policy.

Disclaimer: The population data in the databases are from the World Bank.

Disclaimer: Countries that are not listed in these databases have reported no cases to WHO and no cases were identified in the public domain.

Download the data in more formats:

Download in CSV

Download in JSON

Download in XML

Script for downloading the CSV file into “R” software

Make sure that you have the “utils” package installed.

#these libraries need to be loaded

library(utils)

#read the Dataset sheet into “R”. The dataset will be called "data".

data <- read.csv("https://opendata.ecdc.europa.eu/covid19/casedistribution/csv", na.strings = "", fileEncoding = "UTF-8-BOM")