Short description
HealthStats is the World Bank’s comprehensive database of Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) statistics. It includes over 250 indicators on topics such as health financing, HIV/AIDS, immunization, malaria and tuberculosis, health workforce and health facility use, nutrition, reproductive health, population and population projections, cause of death, non-communicable diseases, water and sanitation, with background information on poverty, labour force, economy and education. Regarding health financing, the database contains indicators such as health expenditure per capita, public health expenditure, and out-of-pocket health expenditure. The HNP data can be accessed by country, topic, or indicator, and view the resulting data (and wealth quintiles) in tables, charts or maps.
Key indicators
Health financing, HIV/AIDS, immunization, labour force, economy, education
Data source
The data is gathered from a variety of international sources (United Nations Population Division, WHO, United Nations Children’s Fund, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and others).
Time frame
1960-2012
Organization
World Bank
Website
http://datatopics.worldbank.org/hnp/
http://databank.worldbank.org/data/..
Contact
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Keywords
health financing, health expenditure, out-of-pocket health expenditure, health workforce, health facility use, poverty, education, labour force
