Provisional U.S. COVID-19 Death Counts by County, 2020-2023

Provisional counts of deaths involving COVID-19 by county of occurrence in the United States, covering the period from 2020 to 2023. The data was published by data.cdc.gov and is no longer updated as of June 28, 2023. It includes columns for deaths from all causes, county-level identifiers, and urban-rural classification.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in COVID-19 mortality using the Start Date and End Date columns.
• Compare COVID-19 deaths to all-cause mortality using the Deaths involving COVID-19 and Deaths from All Causes columns.
• Assess geographic disparities in mortality using the State, County name, and FIPS County Code columns.
• Investigate urban-rural differences in COVID-19 impact using the Urban Rural Code column.

Strengths

• Includes county-level geographic identifiers (FIPS County Code) for granular analysis.
• Provides both COVID-19-specific and all-cause mortality counts for comparative studies.
• Covers a multi-year period (2020-2023) relevant to the pandemic's major phases.

Limitations

• Data is provisional and was last updated on 2025-04-21; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

data.cdc.gov

Time Range

2020-2023

Freshness

Data is not updated; final update was June 28, 2023.

Geography

United States, by county