Health Statistics

The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is the world's largest, on-going telephone health survey system.

CountryWatch provides critical country-specific intelligence and data through its suite of products to over 4000 clients including public and private sector organizations with overseas operations and global interests.

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions." From Eurostat

Kaiser is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., as well as the U.S. role in global health policy.

The World Health Organization's gateway to health-related statistics from around the world.

A collection of links provided by the University of Washington Health Sciences Library that pertain to global health.

Provides key health, nutrition and population statistics gathered from a variety of international sources. Themes include population dynamics, nutrition, reproductive health, health financing, medical resources and usage, immunization, infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, DALY, population projections and lending. HNPStats also includes health, nutrition and population statistics by wealth quintiles.

An independent global health research center at the University of Washington that provides rigorous measurement of the world's most important health problems. IHME makes this information freely available.

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facilitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

UNdata is a single entry point for statistical resources of the UN.