# Daily COVID-19 vaccine doses administered - Data package

This data package contains the data that powers the chart ["Daily COVID-19 vaccine doses administered"](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-19-vaccination-doses?csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false) on the Our World in Data website. It was downloaded on August 30, 2026.

### Active Filters

A filtered subset of the full data was downloaded. The following filters were applied:

## CSV Structure

The high level structure of the CSV file is that each row is an observation for an entity (usually a country or region) and a timepoint (usually a year).

The first two columns in the CSV file are "Entity" and "Code". "Entity" is the name of the entity (e.g. "United States"). "Code" is the OWID internal entity code that we use if the entity is a country or region. For most countries, this is the same as the [iso alpha-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-3) code of the entity (e.g. "USA") - for non-standard countries like historical countries these are custom codes.

The third column is either "Year" or "Day". If the data is annual, this is "Year" and contains only the year as an integer. If the column is "Day", the column contains a date string in the form "YYYY-MM-DD".

The final column is the data column, which is the time series that powers the chart. If the CSV data is downloaded using the "full data" option, then the column corresponds to the time series below. If the CSV data is downloaded using the "only selected data visible in the chart" option then the data column is transformed depending on the chart type and thus the association with the time series might not be as straightforward.


## Metadata.json structure

The .metadata.json file contains metadata about the data package. The "charts" key contains information to recreate the chart, like the title, subtitle etc.. The "columns" key contains information about each of the columns in the csv, like the unit, timespan covered, citation for the data etc..

## About the data

Our World in Data is almost never the original producer of the data - almost all of the data we use has been compiled by others. If you want to re-use data, it is your responsibility to ensure that you adhere to the sources' license and to credit them correctly. Please note that a single time series may have more than one source - e.g. when we stich together data from different time periods by different producers or when we calculate per capita metrics using population data from a second source.

## Detailed information about the data


## COVID-19 doses (daily, 7-day average)
New COVID-19 vaccination doses administered (7-day smoothed). For countries that don't report vaccination data on a daily basis, we assume that vaccination changed equally on a daily basis over any periods in which no data was reported. This produces a complete series of daily figures, which is then averaged over a rolling 7-day window.
Last updated: August 14, 2024  
Unit: people  


### How to cite this data

#### In-line citation
If you have limited space (e.g. in data visualizations), you can use this abbreviated in-line citation:  
Official data collated by Our World in Data (2024); World Health Organisation (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data

#### Full citation
Official data collated by Our World in Data (2024); World Health Organisation (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “COVID-19 doses (daily, 7-day average)” [dataset]. Official data collated by Our World in Data, “COVID-19, vaccinations”; World Health Organisation, “COVID-19, vaccinations (WHO)” [original data].
Source: Official data collated by Our World in Data (2024), World Health Organisation (2025) – with major processing by Our World In Data

### Sources

#### Official data collated by Our World in Data – COVID-19, vaccinations
Retrieved on: 2024-08-14  
Retrieved from: https://github.com/owid/covid-19-data/  

#### World Health Organisation – COVID-19, vaccinations (WHO)
Retrieved on: 2024-08-14  
Retrieved from: https://covid19.who.int/  


    