Items corresponding to entire populations or subpopulations. Might be geographically or temporally temporally limited.

population

This dataset includes official COVID-19 testing data in different 94 countries over time. Testing data collected only included PCR tests and are updated frequently. They provide a time series for the daily number of tests performed, or people tested, together with metadata.

non-collection specific

(Complex) Released

XLSX

Country

Earth

English

CC BY 4.0

Edouard Mathieu

Esteban Ortiz-Ospina

Max Roser

Hannah Ritchie

ORCID

Bobbie Macdonald

Charlie Giattino

Joe Hasell

Diana Beltekian

A cross-country database of COVID-19 testing.

A species of BETACORONAVIRUS causing atypical respiratory disease (COVID-19) in humans. The organism was first identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China. The natural host is the Chinese intermediate horseshoe bat, RHINOLOPHUS affinis.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

SARS-CoV2

Information about diagnostic tests, results, including serology tests, PCR, and other tests

diagnostic tests

Tests

An organism of a particular biological taxon that is the site of reproduction of an organism of a different taxon.

host organism

Host

Homo sapiens

A disease is a disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism.

disease

Disease

A disease whose physical basis is an infectious disorder

infectious disease

Infectious Disease

A Coronavirus infection that is characterized by fever, cough and shortness of breath and that has_material_basis_in SARS-CoV-2.

COVID-19

viral Infectious disease

Viruses Infection

 A count of simulated or physical individuals in a population.

Population count

Population Count

Vaccine preventable diseases are those infectious diseases that can be prevented by vaccination

vaccine-preventable Disease

Vaccine-Preventable Disease

A respiratory tract infection caused by a virus. Viruses represent the most common causes of upper and lower respiratory tract infections and include rhinoviruses, influenza viruses, parainfluenza viruses, and respiratory syncytial virus.

viral respiratory tract infection

Viral Respiratory Tract Infection

Minute infectious agents whose genomes are composed of DNA or RNA, but not both. They are characterized by a lack of independent metabolism and the inability to replicate outside living host cells.

Viruses

An organism of a particular biological taxon that is the bearer of an infectious dispositions towards an organism of a different particular biological taxon.

pathogen

Pathogen

A data item that is an aggregate of other data items of the same type that have something in common. Averages and distributions can be determined for data sets.

data set

The 'about' property contains mixed types: DefinedTerm objects represent subject matter/topics, while Place objects represent geographical scope or applicability

about-property-structure

Apache 2.0

Schema.org vocabulary for structured data on the web

Schema.org

A structured data markup specification for describing datasets in the life sciences, extending schema.org Dataset

Bioschemas Dataset Profile

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Terms - refined elements for precise resource description

DCMI Metadata Terms

W3C Data Catalog Vocabulary for describing data catalogs

Data Catalog Vocabulary

DataCite metadata schema for research data citation

DataCite Metadata Schema

W3C Provenance Ontology for describing provenance information

PROV Ontology

Provenance, Authoring and Versioning ontology for metadata about web resources

PAV Ontology

Custom MIDAS vocabulary for epidemiological data and modeling

MIDAS Metadata Vocabulary

OBO Foundry ontologies for life sciences and biomedical research

Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology

GeoNames Ontology

Health Level 7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

HL7 FHIR

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms

SNOMED Clinical Terms

LOINC database for laboratory and clinical observations

Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes

Landing page where users can browse and download dataset files in various formats.

Identifier	URL:https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/tree/master/public/data/testing
Type	Data Set
Biological Scale	population
Collection End Date
Language	English
Topics	Disease Infectious Disease Vaccine-Preventable Disease COVID-19 Viruses Infection Viral Respiratory Tract Infection COVID-19 Host Homo sapiens Pathogen Viruses SARS-CoV2 Population Count Tests
Geographical Scope	Earth
Geographical Resolution	Country
Start Date	2020/01/01
End Date	2022/06/23
Version	ongoing
Accessible For Free	TRUE
License	CC BY 4.0
Rights	unspecified
HTTP Status Code	200
HTTP Checked On	2025/11/10