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Global Burden of Disease (GBD)

GBD is the single largest and most detailed scientific effort ever conducted to quantify levels and trends in health. It provides a comprehensive picture of mortality and disability across countries, time, age, and sex, incorporating over 350 diseases and injuries in 204 countries.

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National-level and state-level prevalence of overweight and obesity among children, adolescents, and adults in the USA, 1990–2021, and forecasts up to 2050

Marie Ng, Xiaochen Dai, Rebecca Cogen, Emmanuela Gakidou, Stein Emil Vollset, Noah Ahmad, Dana Bryazka, Samath D. Dharmaratne, Valery Feigin, Simon Hay, Stephen Lim, Paulina Lindstedt, Justin Lo, Tomislav Mestrovic, Ali Mokdad, Erin Mullany, Christopher J.L. Murray, Erin O'Connell, Sam Ostroff, Tom Pham, Cat Raggi, Amanda Smith, Asrat Wolde, Chun-Wei Yuan
November 14, 2024
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Global, regional, and national stillbirths at 20 weeks’ gestation or longer in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2021

Haley Comfort, Theresa McHugh, Nicholas Kassebaum, Rakhi Dandona, Christopher J.L. Murray, Mohsen Naghavi, Simon Hay, Austin Schumacher, Ashley Harris, Erin May, Katherine Paulson, William Gardner, John Fuller, Meghan Frisch, Heather Taylor, Andrew Leever, Corey Teply, Nicholas Verghese, Tahiya Alam, Aleksandr Aravkin, Lalit Dandona, Maegan Dirac, Stephen Lim, Ali Mokdad, Tom Pham, Hannah Robinson-Oden, Asrat Wolde
November 4, 2024

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WHO Rehabilitation Need Estimator

Analyze estimates of the world’s need for rehabilitation services from 1990 to 2021.

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November 7, 2024
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Health-related SDGs

Explore progress made toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1990–2023 and projections to 2030.

Last updated
October 29, 2024
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GBD Tobacco Forecasts

Explore patterns in future smoking scenarios from 2022 to 2050.

Last updated
October 2, 2024
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MICROBE

The MICROBE (Measuring Infectious Causes and Resistance Outcomes for Burden Estimation) tool visualizes the fatal and nonfatal health outcomes of infections, pathogens, and antimicrobial resistance across different countries and regions.

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September 16, 2024