Several studies showed that more men died from COVID-19 than women. Using Global Health 5050 COVID-19 sex-disaggregated data, the study came to the same conclusion: the novel coronavirus tends to affect men more severely than it does women.

In countries where data is available, there is not a clear pattern in terms of whether women or men are more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19. In some countries, there is a higher proportion of confirmed cases among women (over 50%), while in other countries, it is higher among men.

But in most countries, the majority of people dying from COVID-19 are men.

Dashboard 2 aggregates female proportations in the confirmed cases and in the mortality rate (here taken as the proportion of deaths among confirmed cases). It also lists countries by the female-male ratio among confirmed cases. The charts can be filtered using the filters on the right.

Only five out of the 43 countries recorded higher female death rates than male ones. Among them, Slovenia ranked first in terms of female percentage among total deaths, followed by Finland and Estonia.

Thailand ranked first in terms of the death rate for men from the COVID-19. As shown in the graph, men in Thailand were 2.8 times more likely than women to die from COVID-19, follwed by The Netherlands.

Data Source and inspiration from: Global Health 5050

Data Last Updated May 28, 2020

Notes on the data from Global Health 5050:

*Data are collected from official government sources in each country.

*The total number of cases and deaths reported below may differ from the most recent numbers in a given country for two primary reasons: 1) Data is taken from the last date that sex-disaggregated data was available, which in some cases is not reported as regularly as total cases/deaths, and 2) these figures reflect the total number of cases / deaths where sex-disaggregated data is available. Some countries only report sex-disaggregated data on a portion of total cases/deaths.

*This data is intended to be used to understand the breakdown of cases and deaths by sex, not to monitor overall numbers of cases or deaths per country.

*Definitions of cases and deaths recorded due to COVID-19 may vary by country.