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Global Health

Track global health indicators across mortality, life expectancy, disease burden, and health systems.

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Global health pages should separate mortality counts, rates, burden estimates, and health-system coverage.

Every chart below is backed by the World Vitals metric registry. Live-looking values are marked as estimated rates; annual and snapshot values keep their source year visible.

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Healthlatest annual

Under-5 mortality rate

37.4

World Bank world under-5 mortality estimate, deaths per 1,000 live births.

World Bank / 2024
Healthlatest annual

Deaths from ischaemic heart disease

9.00M

WHO Global Health Estimates identify ischaemic heart disease as the leading cause of death.

World Health Organization / 2021

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