Sex-disaggregated data along the clinical pathway, from testing through to hospitalisations and intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, is essential to helping us understand who is being impacted by the epidemic and who has access to testing and health services.
Yet very few countries are reporting this data in its entirety.
To view the data on characteristics beyond sex click here.
At a minimum, all countries should collect and report data on COVID-19 cases and deaths broken down by sex. We assess the availability of this data in countries that are home to more than 99% of confirmed cases in the world. The amount of sex-disaggregated data however is far lower than that. Here’s how much sex-disaggregated data we’ve found.
For every 10 female...
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...Tests | Across 18 countries |
...there are 8 ...there are 8 male Tests
male Tests |
...Cases | Across 183 countries |
...there are 10 ...there are 10 male Cases
male Cases |
...Hospitalisations | Across 77 countries |
...there are 12 ...there are 12 male Hospitalisations
male Hospitalisations |
...ICU admissions | Across 20 countries |
...there are 17 ...there are 17 male ICU admissions
male ICU admissions |
...Deaths | Across 140 countries |
...there are 13 ...there are 13 male Deaths
male Deaths |
...Confirmed cases that have died | Across 129 countries |
...there are 15 ...there are 15 male Confirmed cases that have died
male Confirmed cases that have died |
...Vaccinations | Across 114 countries |
...there are 10 ...there are 10 male Vaccinations
male Vaccinations |
Below you can explore sex-disaggregated data on COVID-19 from our tracker and compare to global demographic, development and gender equality datasets.