Global Travel Restriction's Effect on The Number of Deaths from COVID - 19: An Analysis on Global COVID-19 Data
<p><a>Our initial sample size includes 221 countries which includes 195 United Nations (UN) member countries and some dependent territories for which independent data are available. </a>Some of the countries included in the analysis are dependent territories under some independent countries such as The United Kingdom, which has 14 overseas territories under its jurisdiction. Though they are not independent countries but most of them are internally self-governing with the UK keeping responsibility for protection and foreign affairs. However, we have excluded two countries as the data were missing for many variables for these two territories. The two omitted countries are MS Zaandam and Diamond Princess. So, the final sample size includes 219 countries and territories for which we collected data on COVID-19 as well as their geographic and demographic aspects. More details of the variables included are provided in the table 1. A list of all countries included in the analysis is provided in the appendix. All data from all sources including Wikipedia, World population review and Worldometer are collected during the period of Feb 1, 2021, to Feb 07, 2021.</p>