Weekly new ICU admissions for COVID-19 per million

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.
Sources and processing
This data is based on the following sources
How we process data at
All data and visualizations on rely on data sourced from one or several original data providers. Preparing this original data involves several processing steps. Depending on the data, this can include standardizing country names and world region definitions, converting units, calculating derived indicators such as per capita measures, as well as adding or adapting metadata such as the name or the description given to an indicator.
At the link below you can find a detailed description of the structure of our data pipeline, including links to all the code used to prepare data across .
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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: Weekly new ICU admissions for COVID-19 per million”, 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/weekly-icu-admissions-covid-per-million [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 . “Weekly new ICU admissions for COVID-19 per million” [dataset]. Official data collated by , “COVID-19, hospitalisations” [original data]. Retrieved April 26, 2025 from /grapher/weekly-icu-admissions-covid-per-million