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IHME is the world's largest independent health data resource with state-of-the-art search, analytic, and display tools.The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation's (IHME) mission is to provide comprehensive data and analytics to support global efforts to improve health. IHME’s research is organized around answering three critical questions that are essential to understanding the current state of population health and the strategies necessary to improve it.
IHME provides data and analytic guidance to heads of state, major philanthropists, fortune 500 companies, among many others. IHME's databases are the result of a $300m investment, growing at $50m per year into the collection, validation and analysis of worldwide disease data. IHME's comprehensive data suite is a result of work from:
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IHME Data equip decision makers with data-driven global insights that drive confident, strategic decision making.
Comprehensive, comparable estimates help facilitate:
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IHME leads the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), the single largest scientific effort to measure trends and levels in population health. The GBD study is the gold standard in population health metrics.
The GBD quantifies health loss due to all diseases, injuries, and risk factors, for each country and many subnational areas, by age and sex, and over time. The GBD project produces time series since 1990 for each of:
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GBD geographical units are mutually exclusive and globally exhaustive, broken down by:
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Learn more about available IHME Data and services here.