A data frame with weekly death counts from multiple countries that includes the year 2020. Each country has a different range of data and most countries have at least 5 years of pre-2020 data. The original data was collated by the Financial Times .
data(world_counts)An object of class "data.frame"
country Name of the country
date Corresponding date of observation
outcome Estimated number of deaths
population Population estimate (from the Census)