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Description: With the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic currently affecting every corner of the world, we believe there is a critical need to understand how we behaviourally react to the current pandemic. Given currently there is no real treatment or vaccination, containment of the spread of virus are heavily relied on precautionary behaviour from fellow citizens, therefore, understanding the drivers behind behavioural responses such as mobility are of acute importance. We conducted a study to explore risk and human behaviour in the COVID-19 setting across 60 countries by combining the newly released data on human mobility by Google (Community Mobility Reports) with a globally representative dataset on risk preferences based on (Falk et al., 2016; Falk et al., 2018). File description: Scripts: RiskAttitudesAndHumanMobility_Replication_21May2020.do - replication .do file RiskAttitudesAndHumanMobility_DataPrep_24April2020.do - preparation .do file to combine data from Global Preferences Survey, and Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (pending update) adjustregion.do; adjustregion_apple.do - codes for merging regions across datasets Data: RiskAttitudesAndHumanMobility_21May2020.dta - data for replication Global_Mobility_Report_Apr17.csv - mobility CSV file obtained from Google (https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/) applemobilitytrends-2020-04-15.csv - mobility CSV file obtained from Apple (https://www.apple.com/covid19/mobility) GlobalPreferencesSurvey_aggregate.dta - GPS data aggregated on country and regional level (Falk et al., 2016; Falk et al., 2018). OxCGRT_Download_170420_111418_Full.csv - Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) obtained from https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/research-projects/coronavirus-government-response-tracker (Hale et al. 2020). WDI_pop.dta - population density and % population over 65 from World Development Indicators (https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators). Please contact hofai.chan@qut.edu.au for questions and refer to our paper. Recommended citation for data: Chan, H.F., Skali, A., Savage, D.A. et al. Risk attitudes and human mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sci Rep 10, 19931 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76763-2 Data use policy: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY standard.