Covid-19 is continuing to spread around the world, with more than 125 million confirmed cases and 2.7 million deaths across nearly 200 countries.

The US, Brazil and India have seen the highest number of confirmed cases, followed by France, Russia and a number of European countries.

Very few places have been left untouched.

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.

Confirmed cases have been rising steeply since the middle of last year, but the true extent of the first outbreaks in 2020 is unclear because testing was not then widely available.

The 100 millionth coronavirus case was recorded at the end of January - about a year after the first officially diagnosed case of the virus.

Deaths have also been rising, however official figures may not fully reflect the true number in many countries.

Data on excess deaths, a measure of how many more people are dying than would be expected based on the previous few years, may give a better indication of the actual numbers in many cases.

Several coronavirus vaccines against the virus have now been approved for use, either by individual countries or groups of countries, such as the European Union and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Of the 138 countries and territories administering vaccines and publishing rollout data, 64 are high-income nations, 67 are middle-income and seven low-income.

The map below, using figures collated by Our World in Data - a collaboration between Oxford University and an educational charity - shows the total number of doses given per 100 people, mostly first doses.

Overall, the US and China have given the most doses, 133 million and 92 million respectively, while India has administered almost 56 million so far.

But when breaking the figures down by population, looking at doses administered per 100 people in the 10 countries giving the most vaccinations, Israel, the UAE and Chile top the list.

Most countries are prioritising the over-60s, health workers and people who are clinically vulnerable.

Some countries have secured more vaccine doses than their populations need, while other lower-income countries are relying on a global plan known as Covax, which is seeking to ensure everyone in the world has access to a vaccine.

Several African countries have received vaccines through the Covax initiative, with vaccinations now underway in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Kenya and Rwanda, among others.

As populations across the world await widespread vaccine rollout, cases are either stable or rising slowly in most regions at the moment.

Here's a breakdown of the situation by region:

Europe

Several European countries including France, Poland and Turkey are seeing sharp rises in infections once more.

In France, Paris has entered a new month-long lockdown, together with several other regions in the north and the south. Some 21 million people are affected.

Vaccine rollout across the European Union has been problematic, with delays to deliveries and concerns over the safety of the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccine - which the WHO and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) say are unfounded.

North America

The US has recorded more than 30 million cases and more than 540,000 deaths, the highest figures in the world.

Daily cases were at record levels in early January but they have fallen substantially in the last few weeks.

Canada, which has a far lower death rate than the US, also experienced a recent surge. Daily cases there fell in January before rising in March.

Asia

Asia was the centre of the initial outbreak that spread from China in early 2020, but the number of cases and deaths there has been lower than in Europe and North America.

The region saw a large rise in the number of cases last autumn, driven by a surge in infections in India.

India has seen more than 11.8 million confirmed cases, the third-highest in the world after the US and Brazil, and daily infections appear to be rising quite sharply again.

Middle East

Several countries in the Middle East have had deadly coronavirus outbreaks over the past 12 months, with Iran current and Israel having seen the highest numbers.

Cases have fallen in Israel but several countries, including Jordan, Iran and Iraq, are currently seeing renewed outbreaks.

Israel's vaccination programme has been highly successful in reducing the number of cases there.

Africa

Africa has recorded more than 4.1 million cases and over 110,000 deaths - but the true extent of the pandemic in many African countries is not known as testing rates are low.

South Africa, with more than 1.5 million cases, is the worst affected country on the continent, according to official figures.

Morocco, Egypt, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Nigeria and Kenya have also recorded more than 100,000 cases.

Latin America

In Latin America, there has been particular concern about soaring infection rates in Brazil.

The country has about 12 million confirmed cases and more than 300,000 deaths - the world's second highest death toll.

Brazil's daily Covid-19 death toll passed 3,000 for the first time on Wednesday.

Argentina, Colombia and Mexico have all recorded more than two million cases, while Peru has seen more than one million.

Oceania

Australia and New Zealand have been praised for their response to the pandemic, with both countries having seen comparatively few deaths.

In a sign of how effective their lockdown measures have been, the average number of cases in both countries is similar to that in French Polynesia, a sprawling network of islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Most other islands in the region have seen at least a few cases.

Papua New Guinea is currently the worst-affected country in the region after seeing a recent spike in cases.

Covid-19 was first detected in the city of Wuhan, China, in late 2019 but the outbreak spread quickly across the globe in the first months of 2020.

It was declared a global pandemic by the WHO on 11 March 2020.

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

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.