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Number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care (ICU)

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What you should know about this indicator

  • For countries where the number of ICU patients is not reported, we display the closest metric (patients ventilated or in critical condition).
  • Hospital and ICU data are sourced from official providers and collated by , but no new datapoints have been added since 13 August 2024.
  • Gaps in more recent hospitalization trends may exist due to the cessation of regular updates after August 2024.
Number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care (ICU)
Number of COVID-19 patients in ICU on a given day.
Source
Official data collated by (2024) – processed by
Last updated
August 13, 2024
Unit
patients in ICU

Related research and writing

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Hospitalizations

Edouard Mathieu, Hannah Ritchie, Lucas Rodés-Guirao, Cameron Appel, Daniel Gavrilov, Charlie Giattino, Joe Hasell, Bobbie Macdonald, Saloni Dattani, Diana Beltekian, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, and Max Roser

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

Our hospital & ICU data is collected from official sources and collated by .

On 13 August 2024, we stopped adding new datapoints to our COVID-19 hospitalisation dataset.

The data produced by third parties and made available by is subject to the license terms from the original third-party authors. We will always indicate the original source of the data in our database, and you should always check the license of any such third-party data before use.

Retrieved on
August 13, 2024
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Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by . To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Edouard Mathieu, Hannah Ritchie, Lucas Rodés-Guirao, Cameron Appel, Charlie Giattino, Joe Hasell, Bobbie Macdonald, Saloni Dattani, Diana Beltekian, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser (2020) - "Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)". Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: '/coronavirus' [Online Resource]
The data has been obtained from different sources depending on the country:

    

  • Algeria: Ministry of Health ()
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  • Argentina: Government of Argentina, via Rodrigo Maidana ()
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  • Australia: Official data from states via covidbaseau.com ()
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  • Austria: Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety ()
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  • Belgium: Sciensano ()
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  • Bolivia: Ministry of Health, via Sociedatos on GitHub ()
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  • Bulgaria: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ()
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  • Canada: Government of Canada ()
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  • Chile: Ministry of Health, via Ministry of Science GitHub repository ()
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  • Croatia: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ()
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  • Cyprus: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ()
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  • Czechia: Ministry of Health ()
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  • Denmark: Statens Serum Institut, covid19-data-denmark on GitHub (, )
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  • England: Government of the United Kingdom ()
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  • Estonia: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ()
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  • Finland: Department of Health and Welfare ()
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  • France: Santé publique France ()
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  • Germany: Robert Koch Institute ()
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  • Greece: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ()
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  • Hungary: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ()
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  • Iceland: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ()
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  • Ireland: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ()
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  • Israel: Ministry of Health ()
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  • Italy: Ministry of Health and Higher Institute of Health (, ()
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  • Japan: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare ()
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  • Latvia: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ()
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  • Liechtenstein: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ()
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  • Lithuania: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ()
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  • Luxembourg: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ()
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  • Malaysia: Ministry of Health ()
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  • Malta: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ()
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  • Netherlands: National Coordination Center Patient Distribution ()
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  • Northern_Ireland: Government of the United Kingdom ()
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  • Norway: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ()
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  • Poland: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ()
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  • Portugal: General Directorate of Health, via Data Science for Social Good Portugal ()
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  • Romania: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ()
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  • Russia: Government of Russia (https://стопкоронавирус.рф/information/)
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  • Scotland: Government of the United Kingdom ()
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  • Serbia: Ministry of Health via github.com/aleksandar-jovicic/COVID19-Serbia ()
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  • Singapore: Ministry of Health (; ()
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  • South_Africa: National Policy Data Observatory (NPDO) at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) ()
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  • South_Korea: "Ministry of Health and Welfare, via WWolf on GitHub ()
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  • Slovakia: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ()
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  • Slovenia: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ()
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  • Spain: Ministry of Health, Consumption and Social Welfare ()
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  • Sweden: The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare ()
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  • Switzerland: Federal Office of Public Health ()
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  • United_Kingdom: Government of the United Kingdom ()
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  • United_States: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (
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  • Wales: Government of the United Kingdom (
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Citations

How to cite this page

To cite this page overall, including any descriptions, FAQs or explanations of the data authored by , please use the following citation:

“Data Page: Number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care (ICU)”, part of the following publication: Edouard Mathieu, Hannah Ritchie, Lucas Rodés-Guirao, Cameron Appel, Daniel Gavrilov, Charlie Giattino, Joe Hasell, Bobbie Macdonald, Saloni Dattani, Diana Beltekian, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, and Max Roser (2020) - “COVID-19 Pandemic”. Data adapted from Official data collated by . Retrieved from /grapher/current-covid-patients-icu [online resource]
How to cite this data

In-line citationIf you have limited space (e.g. in data visualizations), you can use this abbreviated in-line citation:

Official data collated by  (2024) – processed by

Full citation

Official data collated by  (2024) – processed by . “Number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care (ICU)” [dataset]. Official data collated by , “COVID-19, hospitalisations” [original data]. Retrieved April 28, 2025 from /grapher/current-covid-patients-icu