Health Statistics: Global Health

Provides the latest available data on death and disability globally, by region and country, and by age, sex and cause.

Gateway to health-related statistics from around the world.

Protects people from the threat of influenza by continuously functioning as a: global mechanism of surveillance, preparedness and response for seasonal, pandemic and zoonotic influenza; global platform for monitoring influenza epidemiology and disease; and global alert for novel influenza viruses and other respiratory pathogens.

Provides data on health behaviors and protective factors among students to: help countries develop priorities, establish programs, and advocate for resources for school health and youth health programs and policies; allow international agencies, countries, and others to make comparisons across countries regarding the prevalence of health behaviors and protective factors; and establish trends in the prevalence of health behaviors and protective factors by country for use in evaluation of school health and youth health promotion programs.

Houses and displays data from four tobacco-related surveys conducted around the world. Purpose is to enhance countries’ capacity to monitor tobacco use, guide national tobacco prevention and control programs, and facilitate comparison of tobacco-related data at the national, regional, and global levels.