diff --git a/packages/@ourworldindata/core-table/src/CoreTableUtils.ts b/packages/@ourworldindata/core-table/src/CoreTableUtils.ts
index 0e27c90f9b6..618c41dc8f3 100644
--- a/packages/@ourworldindata/core-table/src/CoreTableUtils.ts
+++ b/packages/@ourworldindata/core-table/src/CoreTableUtils.ts
@@ -579,6 +579,7 @@ export const parseDelimited = (
     const result = Papa.parse(str, {
         delimiter: delimiter ?? detectDelimiter(str),
         header: true,
+        skipEmptyLines: true,
         transformHeader: (header: string) => header.trim(),
         transform: (value: string) => value.trim(),
     })