MIDAS Catalog

MIDAS

Created by John Burn-Murdoch, FT Visual & Data Journalism team, Chris Giles, Valentina Romei, Henry Foy, David Pilling, Laura Pitel, Martin Stabe and Aleksandra Wisniewska
Description:

This dataset contains excess mortality data for the period covering the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. The data contains the excess mortality data for all known jurisdictions which publish all-cause mortality data meeting the following criteria: daily, weekly or monthly level of granularity; includes equivalent historical data for at least one full year before 2020, and preferably at least five years (2015-2019) and; includes data up to at least April 1, 2020

Preview:
https://github.com/Financial-Times/coronavirus-excess-mortality-data

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IdentifierURL:https://github.com/Financial-Times/coronavirus-excess-mortality-data
Typedata set
Biological Scalepopulation
Collection End Date2021/05/05
LanguageEnglish
Topics
  • case counts
    • mortality data
      • excess mortality dataset
  • disease
    • infectious disease
      • COVID-19
  • host organism
    • Homo sapiens
  • pathogen
    • Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Geographical ScopeEarth
Geographical ResolutionRegion, Country
Start Date2000/01/07
End Date2021/05/02
Versionunspecified
Accessible For FreeTRUE
LicenseCC BY 4.0
Rightshttps://github.com/Financial-Times/coronavirus-excess-mortality-data#license-and-attribution
HTTP Status Code200
HTTP Checked On2025/06/16