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Data tools and practices

Collecting, cleaning, and storing data

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Data for the private sector

​IHME Client Services leverages our evidence-based datasets to answer strategic questions and guide data-driven decisions. We customize service agreements to fit each organization’s needs.

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Client Services

For commercial use of data, please contact [email protected].

 

Data Librarians

For help finding data sources, contact our data librarians using a contact form.
 

About private sector data use

We leverage IHME’s datasets to answer strategic questions and guide data-driven decisions. We customize service agreements to fit each organization’s needs.

We partner with industry leaders who are critical to improving health of the world's population to help address a range of strategic and implementation questions.

Use our health data for global ​insights that drive confident, strategic decision-making.

Recently updated interactive visuals

Interactive Data Visual

WHO Rehabilitation Need Estimator

Analyze estimates of the world’s need for rehabilitation services from 1990 to 2021.

Interactive Data Visual

Health-related SDGs

Explore progress made toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1990–2023 and projections to 2030.

Interactive Data Visual

GBD Tobacco Forecasts

Explore patterns in future smoking scenarios from 2022 to 2050.

Interactive Data Visual

MICROBE

The MICROBE (Measuring Infectious Causes and Resistance Outcomes for Burden Estimation) tool visualizes the fatal and nonfatal health outcomes of infections, pathogens, and antimicrobial resistance across different countries and regions.

Using our data and tools

Data tool

Verbal autopsy tool

IHME's verbal autopsy tool, SMARTVA-Analyze, takes verbal autopsy interview data as input and produces cause of death estimates at the individual and population levels.

Tutorials

Training on our tools

Learn how to effectively use IHME's interactive data visuals to find the information you need.

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Trainings and workshops

IHME offers a variety of education and training opportunities for policymakers and scholars engaged in population health and health metrics research, advocacy, and policy.