7.9 billion people. 1 data set.

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.
  • What are the world's major health problems?
  • How well is society addressing these problems?
  • How do we best dedicate resources to maximize health improvement?

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:
  • 500+ full-time professionals 
  • 30 full-time university faculty
  • 30-member scientific counsel
  • 7,800+ international collaborators 
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IHME Headquarters, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA
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Bill Gates, the initial funder of IHME with IHME Founder Dr. Christopher J.L. Murray.

IHME Data equip decision makers with data-driven global insights that drive confident, strategic decision making.

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IHME data are compiled from 150,000+ sources covering 204 countries/territories including 900+ subnational units. Trends are updated with each annual cycle and forecast to 2040.
Comprehensive, comparable estimates help facilitate: 
  • Investments in health and impact measurement, 
  • Cross-functional knowledge sharing,  
  • Clinical trial site selection and design,
  • Disease and modifiable risk factor forecasting,  
  • Quantifying disease prevalence and burden across markets.​​
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China, both sexes, all ages, 2019, DALYs
​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:
  • Exposure to each of 87 risk factors
  • Incidence of disease and injury for 369 causes
  • Prevalence of disease and injury for 369 causes
  • Prevalence and incidence for disease/injury sequelae
  • Death by cause for 282 causes
  • All cause mortality
  • Years of life lost due to premature death (YLLs) for 249 causes
  • Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 369 causes
  • Disability adjusted life years (DALYs) for 369 causes
  • Life expectancy and health life expectancy (HALE)
  • Risk factor attribution for deaths, YLLs, YLDs, and DALYs
  • Relative risks of mortality for each risk-outcome pair.
GBD geographical units are mutually exclusive and globally exhaustive, broken down by:
  • 900+ total geographies within 204 countries and territories, 21 regions and 7 super-regions.
  • Annual trends from 1990 to 2019
  • Forecasts through 2040
  • 38 age groups, from birth to 95+
  • Severity, signs, and symptoms related to health conditions
  • Mapped to ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes
Learn more about available IHME Data and services ​here. ​

IHME Client Services  |  Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA  |  services@healthdata.org