IHME

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) provides data on the Global Burdens of Disease that can be accessed here http://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-results-tool. IHME provides data on multiple metrics that we pull into IFs, including deaths, DALYs, incidence, prevelance, violence and forecasts for each. The latest IFs data update for this series was in February 2024, covering 188 economies over the years 1990-2019.

IFs Series

There are currently 146 series that are pulled from the IHME into IFs. The latest data has been pulled from the report updated on February, 2024 by Python scripts.

Instructions on Pulling IHME Series

Preprocessors

Update in February 2024

The data can be accessed from the GBD tool at http://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-results-tool. You can download the data based on the table below for each series.

Variable	GBD Estimate	Measure	Metric	Cause	Location	Age	Sex	Year	Decimal Places
ViolencePoliticalConflictTerror	Cause of death or injury	Deaths	Rate	Conflict and terrorism	Select all countries and territories	All Ages	Both	Select all	4
ViolencePoliticalPoliceExecution	Cause of death or injury	Deaths	Rate	Executions and police conflict	Select all countries and territories	All Ages	Both	Select all	4
ViolenceSelfHarm	Cause of death or injury	Deaths	Rate	Self-harm	Select all countries and territories	All Ages	Both	Select all	4
SocietalViolenceDeathsTotal	Cause of death or injury	Deaths	Rate	Interpersonal violence + Conflict and terrorism + Executions and police conflict	Select all countries and territories	All Ages	Both	Select all	4
ViolenceInterpersonChild	Cause of death or injury	Deaths	Rate	Interpersonal violence	Select all countries and territories	0-14	Both	Select all	4
ViolenceInterpersonWomenAdult	Cause of death or injury	Deaths	Rate	Interpersonal violence	Select all countries and territories	20 +	Female	Select all	4
DrOpiodPrevIHME	Cause of death or injury	Prevalence	Percent	Opioid Use Disorders	Select all countries and territories	All Ages	Both	Select all	4
DrugPrevalenceAmphetaminesIHME	Cause of death or injury	Prevalence	Percent	Amphetamine Use Disorders	Select all countries and territories	All Ages	Both	Select all	5
DrugPrevalenceCocaineIHME	Cause of death or injury	Prevalence	Percent	Cocaine Use Disorders	Select all countries and territories	All Ages	Both	Select all	5
IHMEDthsHIV	Cause of death or injury	Deaths	Number	HIV/AIDs	Select all countries and territories	All Ages	Both	Select all	5
IHMEDthsMalar	Cause of death or injury	Deaths	Number	Malaria	Select all countries and territories	All Ages	Both	Select all	5
IHMEInciHIVNumber	Cause of death or injury	Incidence	Number	HIV/AIDs	Select all countries and territories	All Ages	Both	Select all
IHMEInciMalariaNumber	Cause of death or injury	Incidence	Number	Malaria	Select all countries and territories	All Ages	Both	Select all
IHMEPrevHIV	Cause of death or injury	Prevalence	Percent	HIV/AIDs	Select all countries and territories	All Ages	Both	Select all	3
IHMEPrevHIVNumber	Cause of death or injury	Prevalence	Number	HIV/AIDs	Select all countries and territories	All Ages	Both	Select all
IHMEPrevMalariaNumber	Cause of death or injury	Prevalence	Number	Malaria	Select all countries and territories	All Ages	Both	Select all

Note: ViolenceInterpersonChild & ViolenceInterpersonWomenAdult have changed a lot, we identify the Age by comparing the trend of old data in IFsHistSeries and the new data from GBD.

Additional IHME Series

Life Expectancy

Life expectancy data can be pulled from https://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/ihme-data/gbd-2019-life-tables-1950-2019. Just download Life Tables: Age < 1 year and use the IHME_GBD_2019_LIFE_TABLES_1950_2019_ID_28_NOSHOCK_Y2020M07D31.CSV (28 means "Age Group < 1 year").

Variable	Age	Sex	Year	Metric Name	Decimal Places
LifeExpectIHMEBothSexesHistOnly	< 1 year	Both	1950-2019	Years	3
LifeExpectIHMEMaleHistOnly	< 1 year	Male	1950-2019	Years	3
LifeExpectIHMEFemaleHistOnly	< 1 year	Female	1950-2019	Years	3

Infant Mortality

Life expectancy data can be pulled from two different sources depending on the series. You can download the data by age group.

Variable	Age	Sex	Year	Decimal Places	Source
InfMortRateIHME	Summation of neonatal, 1-5 month, and 6-11 month	Both	1950-2019	4	https://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/ihme-data/global-burden-disease-study-2019-gbd-2019-under-5-mortality-detailed-age-groups-1950-2019
Under5MortRateIHME	Under 5	Both	1950-2019	4	https://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/ihme-data/gbd-2019-mortality-estimates-1950-2019

Note: InfMortRateIHME must be manually added together, the data can only be downloaded by separate age groups.

Things to Be Aware of While Pulling

1. For the historical deaths by disease series, the data are in millions in IFs. So you will need to do this conversion before you import.
2. Be aware of the definition of each preprocessor and its unit so that you can find the exact match in the IHME GBD variables.
3. Some regions in IFs are not provided by IHME yet, we are encouraged to use proxies. For example, use China, Albania, and Morocco for Hong Kong, Kosovo, and Sahrawi respectively. Be mindful that for tables with units in rate or percent, proximal values can be directly applied; however, when values are in numbers or headcounts, you will need to borrow the population figures to apply values proportionally.

August 2019 Update

For the 2019 update, we have added historical deaths by disease by sex data for the years 1990-2017. These are new series, as we only had totals and not aggregated by sex.

HealthDetailedDeathsCtry in IFs.db

Detailed instruction on pulling number of deaths for IFs death categories can be found here.