World Happiness Report 2021 (Worldwide Mortality)

Context

This dataset contains the mortality data due to various factors across the globe in different countries from the Ninth World Happiness report (2021). The World Happiness Report 2021 focuses on the effects of COVID-19 and how people all over the world have fared.

Content

This dataset contains data such as the various countries selected, their respective populations in the year 2019 and 2020, total COVID-19 deaths in each of these countries, the median age in the corresponding countries considered, whether it is an island or not, index of exposure to COVID-19 infections in other countries as of march 31, log of average distance to SARS countries, whether it is a WHO western pacific region, whether a female head of government or not. In particular, we try to explain why some countries have done so much better than others.

Inspiration

The preparation of the first World Happiness report was based in the Earth Institute at Columbia University, with the Centre for Economic Performance’s research support at the LSE and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, through their grants supporting research at the Vancouver School of Economics at UBC. Also keeping in mind the current situation across the globe, it has inspired me to share this dataset and make some interesting conclusions. The aim was two-fold, first to focus on the effects of COVID-19 on the structure and quality of people’s lives, and second to describe and evaluate how governments all over the world have dealt with the pandemic. The detailed dataset can be found in the following website https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2021/ with some other interesting statistics!