{
  "chart": {
    "title": "Weekly confirmed COVID-19 cases per million people",
    "subtitle": "Weekly confirmed cases refers to the cumulative number of cases over the previous week. Due to limited testing, the number of confirmed cases is lower than the true number of infections.",
    "citation": "World Health Organization (2026); Population based on various sources (2024)",
    "originalChartUrl": "https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/weekly-covid-cases-per-million-people?csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false",
    "selection": [
      "United States",
      "Brazil",
      "United Kingdom",
      "Mexico",
      "Italy",
      "South Africa",
      "Canada",
      "South Korea"
    ]
  },
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    "Weekly cases per million people": {
      "titleShort": "Weekly cases per million people",
      "titleLong": "Weekly cases per million people",
      "descriptionShort": "Cumulative number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the previous week, per million people. Counts can include probable cases, where reported.",
      "descriptionKey": [
        "_Confirmed_ cases represent the number of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infections as reported to WHO, but may not capture the true scale of infection due to varying testing strategies, case definitions, and underreporting.",
        "Data are presented by date of reporting rather than symptom onset, and retrospective updates or corrections by countries can lead to sudden spikes or negative values.",
        "Since WHO relies on Member State reporting, differences in local definitions, testing capacities, and reporting practices can affect international comparisons and trending over time.",
        "There are often large differences in the population size between countries. Therefore, to compare cases between countries, it is more insightful to look at the number of confirmed cases as a rate per million people.",
        "We provide more detail on these points in [Cases of COVID-19: background](https://ourworldindata.org/covid-cases#cases-of-covid-19-background)."
      ],
      "descriptionProcessing": "This indicator is estimated by normalizing by population. We have used daily population estimates, which leads to changes in the denominator between datapoints from different days. For instance, the denominator for January 1st will be different to the one on January 2nd.",
      "unit": "cases per million people",
      "timespan": "",
      "type": "Numeric",
      "owidVariableId": 954544,
      "shortName": "weekly_cases_per_million",
      "lastUpdated": "2026-06-24",
      "nextUpdate": "2026-07-25",
      "citationShort": "World Health Organization (2026); Population based on various sources (2024) – with minor processing by Our World in Data",
      "citationLong": "World Health Organization (2026); Population based on various sources (2024) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Weekly cases per million people” [dataset]. World Health Organization, “COVID-19 Dashboard WHO COVID-19 Dashboard - Daily cases and deaths”; Various sources, “Population” [original data].",
      "fullMetadata": "https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/954544.metadata.json"
    }
  },
  "dateDownloaded": "2026-06-24",
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}