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.
- Be aware of the definition of each preprocessor and its unit so that you can find the exact match in the IHME GBD variables.
- Some regions in IFs are not provided by IHME yet, we are encouraged to use proxies. For example, use Singapore, Albania, and Mali 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.
Tables Used in Hist+Forecast Display
Update in July 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. Note that a detailed death cause mapping table can be found here.
There are 45 tables in total related to detailed death tables in IFs. For each of 15 death causes in IFs, we have a total death table and two tables by sex group. These 45 tables can be searched by using the following naming conventions IHMEDths___, IHMEDths___Females, and IHMEDths___Males, where ___ denotes the cause of death in IFs. These 15 causes are, Cardio, Diabet, Diarrh, Digest, HIV, Intlj, Malar, MalNeopl, MentHlth, OthCD, OthNCD, OthUnintlj, Respinfec, Respiratory, Roadacc.
Demographic Related 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.
HealthDetailedDeathsCtry in IFs.db
Detailed instruction on pulling number of deaths for IFs death categories can be found here.