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Data update

Explore updated data on health, disease, and mortality around the world

Fiona Spooner

What are the leading risk factors that can lead to premature death? You can see the top ones globally in the chart here.

What do people die from? How many people suffer from mental illness, or are living with HIV/AIDS?

The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study aims to answer these and many other questions related to health, disease, and mortality. They provide estimates across hundreds of indicators for every country in the world over the last decades.

One of the largest efforts of its kind, the GBD study is published by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

I recently updated more than 500 of our charts with the latest release of the GBD study.

Explore all of the updated data in our interactive charts
Global deaths by risk factor in 2023 Horizontal bar chart of the estimated annual number of deaths attributed to each of the top risk factors, with a note that estimates come with wide uncertainties, especially for countries with poor vital registration. Note: Risk factors are not mutually exclusive; the sum of deaths attributed to each risk factor can exceed the total number of deaths. Data source: IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2025). License: CC BY.