The COVID-19 Sex-Disaggregated Data Tracker

Data is updated once a month. Last update: 15 September 2022

Across 206 countries, how many have reported sex-disaggregated COVID-19 data?

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.

How many countries have ever reported sex-disaggregated data?

Testing

18
countries

Confirmed cases

183
countries

Confirmed cases among healthcare workers

42
countries

Hospitalisations

77
countries

ICU admissions

20
countries

Deaths

140
countries

Vaccinations

114
countries

How many countries reported sex-disaggregated data in September 2022

Testing

0
countries

Confirmed cases

85
countries

Confirmed cases among healthcare workers

0
countries

Hospitalisations

0
countries

ICU admissions

0
countries

Deaths

39
countries

Vaccinations

0
countries

How many countries had data available in October 2022 that was disaggregated by other characteristics beyond sex?

Testing

7
countries

Confirmed cases

86
countries

Hospitalisatons

24
countries

ICU admissions

23
countries

Deaths

58
countries

Vaccinations

41
countries

To view the data on characteristics beyond sex click here.

How much COVID-19 sex-disaggregated data is available globally?

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.

Confirmed cases
698,926,129
Deaths
6,999,104

Which countries are currently reporting sex-disaggregated data?

As of 15 September 2022
  • have reported data on cases and deaths in the past two months
  • have reported either case or death data in the past two months
  • no sex-disaggregated case or death data reported in the past two months
  • not yet tracked

At the global level, what does the data show?

For every 10 female...
...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

National sex-disaggregated COVID-19 data in context

Below you can explore sex-disaggregated data on COVID-19 from our tracker and compare to global demographic, development and gender equality datasets.