2019 World Bank Health Indicators
These are a variety of health-related indicators collected by the World Bank. Data availability varies by country and in many cases are composites of the most recent years available up to 2019. The headings indicate the name of the variable in the data.
The World Bank. 2020. "Indicators." Accessed 26 July 2020. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator.
Geography
Country boundaries are from the wrld_simpl data set from the R maptools library. The data was originally sourced from Bjoern Sandvik's Mapping Hacks website, and a version is available from NASA at https://github.com/nasa/World-Wind-Java/tree/master/WorldWind/testData/shapefiles.
Country Name
The country name as listed in the World Bank data
Country Code
The ISO 3166 three letter codes
Region
Regional classification as of June 2020 (https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups):
- East Asia & Pacific
- Europe & Central Asia
- Latin America & Caribbean
- Middle East & North Africa
- North America
- South Asia
- Sub-Saharan Africa
Income Group
Income group classification based on GNI per capita in 2019 (https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups):
- Low-income: $1,035 or less
- Lower middle-income: $1,036 - $4,045
- Upper middle-income: $4,046 and $12,535
- High-income: $12,536 or more
Lending Category
Lending categories (https://ida.worldbank.org/about/borrowing-countries).
- IDA: Eligible for international development aid when GNI per capita is below a threshold ($1,185 in fiscal year 2021).
- Blend: Countries that are above the IDA threshold but lack creditworthyness needed to borrow from the IBRD.
- IBRD: Countries that are eligible to borrow from the the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Variables
Attended Births %
Births attended by skilled health staff (% of total)
Year: Latest year in the period 2010-2018 where data is available
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.BRTC.ZS?view=chart
Original Source: UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, and Demographic and Health Surveys.
Contraceptive %
Contraceptive prevalence, any methods (% of women ages 15-49)
Year: Latest year in the period 2010-2018 where data is available
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CONU.ZS?view=chart
Original Source: UNICEF's State of the World's Children and Childinfo, United Nations Population Division's World Contraceptive Use, household surveys including Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys.
Diabetes %
Diabetes prevalence (% of population ages 20 to 79)
Year: 2019
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.DIAB.ZS?view=chart
Original Source: International Diabetes Federation, Diabetes Atlas
GDP per Capita PPP$
GDP per capita, PPP (current international $)
Year: 2019
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?view=chart
Original Source: World Bank, International Comparison Program database
HIV Prevalence %
Prevalence of HIV, total (% of population ages 15-49)
Year: Latest year in the period 2016-2018 where data is available
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.DYN.AIDS.ZS?view=chart
Original Source: UNAIDS estimates.
Immunized DPT %
Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12-23 months)
Year: 2018
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.IMM.IDPT
Original Source: WHO and UNICEF ( who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/en )
Immunized Measles %
Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12-23 months)
Year: 2018
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.IMM.MEAS?view=chart
Original Source: WHO and UNICEF ( who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/en )
Life Expectancy Years
Life expectancy at birth, total (years)
Year: 2018
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?view=chart
Original Source: ( 1 ) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision, or derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: ( 2 ) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, ( 3 ) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, ( 4 ) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot ( various years ), ( 5 ) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database, and ( 6 ) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme.
Mortality Communicable %
Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and nutrition conditions (% of total)
Year: 2016
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.DTH.COMM.ZS
Original Source: Derived based on the data from WHO's Global Health Estimates
Mortality Infant per 1K
Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births)
Year: 2018
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.IMRT.IN
Original Source: Estimates developed by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation ( UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA Population Division ) at childmortality.org.
Mortality Injury %
Cause of death, by injury (% of total)
Year: 2016
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.DTH.INJR.ZS?view=chart
Original Source: Derived based on the data from WHO's Global Health Estimates
Mortality Maternal per 100K
Maternal mortality ratio (modeled estimate, per 100,000 live births)
Year: 2017
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.MMRT?view=chart
Original Source: WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and the United Nations Population Division. Trends in Maternal Mortality: 2000 to 2017. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2019
Mortality Non-Communicable Deaths %
Cause of death, by non-communicable diseases (% of total)
Year: 2016
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.DTH.NCOM.ZS?view=chart
Original Source: Derived based on the data from WHO's Global Health Estimates
Mortality Traffic per 100K
Mortality caused by road traffic injury (per 100,000 people)
Year: 2016
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.TRAF.P5?view=chart
Original Source: World Health Organization, Global Status Report on Road Safety 2018 through Global Health Observatory data repository.
Population
Population, total
Year: 2019
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?view=chart
Original Sources: United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision; Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices; Eurostat: Demographic Statistics; United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot ( various years ); U.S. Census Bureau: International Database; Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Statistics and Demography Programme.
Surgeons per 100K
Specialist surgical workforce (per 100,000 population)
Year: Latest year in the period 2010-2018 where data is available
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.SAOP.P5
Original Source: Data collected by the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery ( lancetglobalsurgery.org ); Data collected by WHO Collaborating Centre for Surgery and Public Health at Lund University from various sources including Ministries of Health or equivalent national regulatory bodies, national official entities such as medical councils, Eurostat, OECD, WHO Euro Health For All Database, WHO EURO Technical resources for health Database; BMJ Glob Health.
Teen Fertility per 1K
Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19)
Year: 2018
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.ADO.TFRT
Original source: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects
Tuberculosis per 100K
Incidence of tuberculosis (per 100,000 people)
Year: 2018
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.TBS.INCD?view=chart
Original Source: World Health Organization, Global Tuberculosis Report
Undernourished %
Prevalence of undernourishment (% of population)
Year: 2017
URL: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SN.ITK.DEFC.ZS?view=chart
Original Source: Food and Agriculture Organization ( fao.org/publications/en ).