Coronavirus is continuing its spread across the world with more than 80 million confirmed cases in 190 countries and nearly two million deaths.

The virus is surging in many regions and countries that had apparent success in suppressing initial outbreaks are also seeing infections rise again.

Note: The recent jump and fall in the 56-day trend for global cases was caused by Turkey announcing 800,000 previously unreported infections on 10 December. Recent numbers may also be affected by incomplete data over the Christmas period.

In the table below, countries can be reordered by deaths, death rate and total cases. In the coloured bars on the right-hand side, countries in which cases have risen to more than 10,000 per day are those with black bars on the relevant date.

Note: The map, table and animated bar chart in this page use a different source for figures for France and the UK from that used by Johns Hopkins University, which results in a slightly lower overall total. US figures do not include Puerto Rico, Guam or the US Virgin Islands.

Coronavirus cases have surged over the past few months in several regions of the world and large numbers of new infections are being reported daily.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the virus will continue to spread rapidly in the coming months.

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: "There will be setbacks and new challenges in the year ahead - for example new variants of Covid-19 and helping people who are tired of the pandemic continue to combat it."

Several countries have now approved coronavirus vaccines for use but as populations await their roll-out, cases remain high across many parts of the world.

The US has recorded about 20 million cases and nearly 350,000 deaths from coronavirus, the highest figures in the world.

Daily cases have been at record levels since early November and there are about 120,000 people in hospital, double the number in either of the two previous waves.

The outbreak has had a devastating impact on the US economy. Nearly 11 million Americans remain out of work and job growth slowed again in November.

Daily cases had fallen in many European countries during November after some steep rises in October.

But in December, cases once again begun to rise in several countries, including France, Germany and the UK.

Lockdowns and other restrictions have been reintroduced in some of the worst-affected regions to help bring numbers down.

Asia was the centre of the initial outbreak, but the number of cases there was relatively low until India saw a surge in infections over the summer.

India has recorded more than 10 million cases, the second-highest official total in the world after the US, but the daily number has been falling since September.

In Latin America, Brazil has about eight million confirmed cases and the world's second highest death toll. The country is currently seeing a second surge in infections.

Africa has recorded nearly three million cases, but the true extent of the pandemic there is not known as testing rates are low.

South Africa, with more than one million cases and nearly 30,000 deaths, is the worst affected country on the continent.

Morocco, Egypt, Ethiopia, Tunisia and Libya are the only other African countries to officially record more than 100,000 cases.

The virus, which causes the respiratory infection Covid-19, was first detected in the city of Wuhan, China, in late 2019.

The outbreak spread quickly across the globe in the first months of 2020 and declared a global pandemic by the WHO on 11 March.

A pandemic is when an infectious disease is passing easily from person to person in many parts of the world at the same time.

Governments across the world have been forced to limit public movement and close businesses and venues in a bid to slow the spread of the virus. This has had a devastating impact on the global economy.

In November, the International Monetary Fund said that while global economic activity had picked up over the summer there were "signs that the recovery may be losing momentum". It also warned that the crisis was "likely to leave deep, unequal scars".

Recent data from UN Women suggested the pandemic could also wipe out 25 years of increasing gender equality.

The data used on this page comes from a variety of sources. It includes figures collated by Johns Hopkins University, data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, national governments and health agencies, as well as UN data on populations.

When comparing figures from different countries it is important to bear in mind that not all governments are recording coronavirus cases and deaths in the same way. This makes like for like comparisons between countries difficult.

Other factors to consider include: different population sizes, the size of a country's elderly population or whether a particular country has a large amount of its people living in densely-populated areas. In addition, countries may be in different stages of the pandemic.