Global Health Estimates (GHE)
The WHO Global Health Estimates provide a comprehensive and comparable assessment of mortality and loss of health due to diseases and injuries for all regions of the world.
The latest WHO assessment of deaths by cause are available below. Due to changes in data and some methods, latest estimates are not comparable to previously-released WHO estimates.
Publications
- World Health Statistics
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Levels & trends in child mortality Report
UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation
Methods
- WHO methods and data sources for global causes of death, 2000–2016
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WHO methods and data sources for life tables 1990–2016
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WHO methods for life expectancy and healthy life expectancy 1990-2015
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WHO-MCEE methods and data sources for child causes of death 2000–2016
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WHO methods and data sources for global burden of disease estimates, 2000–2015
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Multimedia
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Life expectancy, 2000–2016
Life expectancy, healthy life expectancy (HALE) and life tables -
Causes of death, 2000–2016
Cause-specific mortality estimates