GBD 2017 Study Highlights: Population and Fertility

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...

Population and fertility by age and sex for 195 countries and territories, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Population estimates underpin demographic and epidemiological research and are used to track progress on numerous international indicators of health and development. To date, internationally availa...

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.