The HantaCount dataset
Every case, every country, every timeline event behind the counter on the homepage — exposed as machine-readable JSON and CSV under a permissive Creative Commons licence. Built for journalists, researchers, dashboard authors and public-health teams.
Full structured dataset. Summary, country list, timeline, source news. Cached 10 min, CORS open.
Spreadsheet-ready, one row per country, ISO timestamp. Drop directly into Excel, Datawrapper, Flourish.
Schema
{
"lastUpdated": "ISO 8601 UTC",
"summary": {
"totalCases": number,
"deaths": number,
"countries": number,
"contactsTraced": number,
"critical": number
},
"previousSummary": { ...same as summary },
"previousReportAt": "ISO 8601 UTC",
"countries": [
{
"code": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2",
"name": "string",
"cases": number,
"deaths": number,
"lat": number,
"lng": number,
"lastEvent": "YYYY-MM-DD",
"note": "string"
}
],
"timeline": [
{
"date": "YYYY-MM-DD",
"event": "string",
"severity": "info | warning | alert"
}
],
"news": [
{
"id": "string",
"source": "WHO | ECDC | ...",
"title": "string",
"url": "string",
"publishedAt": "ISO 8601 UTC",
"summary": "string"
}
]
}Quick start
Licence & attribution
The dataset is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0). You may use, modify and redistribute it commercially or non-commercially. The only requirement is attribution.
Suggested citation:
Primary sources are linked next to every count. We aggregate; we do not invent. WHO Disease Outbreak News, ECDC technical assessments and named national agency notifications are the authoritative records.
For journalists & researchers
- • Need a custom cut (single country, weekly delta, contact-tracing slice)? Email hello@hantacount.com.
- • Methodology, source list and update cadence: knowledge hub.
- • No paywall, no embargo, no API key. Rate limit is generous; Vercel CDN fronts every request.