GBD 2017 Study Highlights: Life Expectancy and Mortality

GBD Compare

Analyze updated data about the world’s health levels and trends from 1990 to 2017 in this interactive tool using estimates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study. Use treemaps, maps, arrow...

Mortality Visualization

How do input data become GBD estimates? Walk through the estimation process for mortality trends for children and adults for 195 countries and territories using the Mortality visualization. See sou...

Baby ‘Boom’ and ‘Bust’: Nations’ Rates of Childbirth Vary Significantly

Ninety-one nations are not producing enough children to maintain their current populations, while the opposite is true in 104 countries where high birth rates are driving population increases, acco...

Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 study findings

Published in The Lancet in November 2018, GBD 2017 provides for the first time an independent estimation of population, for each of 195 countries and territories and the globe, using a standar...

Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Assessments of age-specific mortality and life expectancy have been done by the UN Population Division, Department of Economics and Social Affairs (UNPOP), the United States Census Bureau, WHO, and...

Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

This booklet provides an overview of all findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study, published in The Lancet.