The visualization shows the distribution of the coronavirus cases for various countries. The data isn’t readily available for all countries, and hence we have used as many as we could gather.
At the initial stages of this COVID-19 spread, it was thought that only the elderly would get affected by it and the youth and kids were “invincible” and at extremely low risk of getting affected. What followed was nothing of that sort. All age groups have been affected around the world, be it kids between 0 and 9 years, teenagers, young adults, youths, elderly – every age group has been affected by it.
The data available shows that in most of the countries, more than 50% of the cases of COVID-19 are under the age of 50, busting the myth of it affecting majorly the elderly. We also realize that the countries that have a higher population of people older than 50 years, like Italy, Spain, - have a higher share of cases of coronavirus for elderly people i.e. the majority of those infected are more than 50 years old. An interesting fact that has come up is that in none of the countries, the kids under the age of 9 years old form more than 3% of the total number of cases, but this does not mean that they are immune. This may be attributed to parents trying to keep their offspring safe and taking strict steps to keep social distancing for their kids. Till further tests prove anything otherwise, everyone should think that all ages can get affected equally likely and hence stay safe.
The visualization also shows the proportions of the cases based on gender. Based on the limited data available for this demographic of the cases, we see that there is no trend in how COVID-19 affects people based on gender. For 4 out of the 7 countries whose data was available to us, we see that more than half of the people infected are females, reaching 65% in Spain. But, for the other 3 countries, we see that males form the majority of those infected, reaching almost 70% of the cases in Cambodia. We cannot conclusively say that the virus affects one gender more than the other until we have more data available on the demographics of the cases around the world. The data available currently does not show any trend for the world but might be able to show trends for the countries.