University Library: Global Information Resources
Provides awareness and instruction of information resources to students, faculty, and staff involved in global study.
Visualizing Global Data
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Cancer Today (Global Cancer Observatory) Based on current national estimates of the incidence, mortality, and prevalence of 27 cancer types in 184 countries.
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Child Mortality Estimates UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation
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Commonwealth Fund: Interactives & Data Allows you to create your own collections of Commonwealth Fund charts. Maps and data sources are both international and US-focused.
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Diabetes Data Portal Data collected and mapped by the International Diabetes Federation.Interactive map with diabetes data by country from the Diabetes Atlas 5th Edition.
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EQUALDEX Crowdsource mapping for a global view of laws related to LGBT rights
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EQUIST (Equitable Impact Sensitive Tool) Dashboard "Designed to help decision-makers develop equitable strategies to improve health and nutrition for the most vulnerable children and women."
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Eurostat Euro eXplorer Enables visualization of socio-economic data at national or detailed territorial level for Europe.
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Exemplars in Global Health: Data Explorer Allows creation and sharing of custom visualizations to interpret global health data
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Gapminder: for a fact-based world view Uses software to display various statistics about global indicators and world's countries.
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GBD Compare From the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
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GIDEON A current, evidence-based resource for diagnosis, treatment, teaching and research in the fields of global infectious diseases, epidemiology, and microbiology.
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Guttmacher Data State, National and Global SRH data.
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Healthy Newborn Network | Numbers Data for download and data visualization.
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IHME Data: Health-related SDGs With this tool, explore progress toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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IHME Data Visualization: MICROBE A tool to visualize the fatal and nonfatal health outcomes of infections, pathogens, and antimicrobial resistance across countries and regions.
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IHME Data Visualizations Innovative ways to visualize complex global health topics.
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IHME Maternal Health Atlas Data visualization from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation
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JMP Global Data on Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) is the custodian of WASH global data.
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MNCAH and Aging Data Portal Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Data Portal. World Health Organization
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NIH World Report An interactive, open-access online database and mapping tool of global research investments.
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Nutrition Landscape Information System (NLiS) NLiS is WHO tool which provides nutrition and nutrition-related health and development data in the form of country profiles and user-defined downloadable data.
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Our World in Data | Burden of Disease Data visualizations of the GBD.
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PRB World Population Data Interactive Source: Population Reference Bureau. Includes latest data on 19 key population, health, and environment indicators for the world, major regions, and more than 200 countries.
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SDG Country Profiles Data visualization tool providing a snapshot of the SDG Agenda in specific countries.
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STATcompiler Allows users to visualize and explore data on hundreds of demographic and health indicators across more than 70 countries. .
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Sustainable Development Report Data visualization tool and report including the SDG Index and Dashboards, an annual review of countries' performance on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
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WFP Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping |DataViz Hub for the World Food Programme
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WHO Global Health Expenditure Database Provides internationally comparable data on health spending for close to 190 countries from 2000 to 2017.
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WHO National Health Workforce Accounts Data Portal NHWA monitors of a set of country-level indicators to support achievement of Universal Health Coverage, Sustainable Development Goals and other health objectives. Free but registration required.
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WHO Universal Health Coverage Data Portal Tracks and provides current data on access to health services and equity in access globally. Also available as a free mobile app.
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World Population Prospects The most recent and official UN population estimates and projections. The data is prepared by the UN Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
Statistical Sources
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UN DataStatistics produced by countries and compiled by the United Nations data system, as well as estimates and projections. Covers agriculture, education, energy, industry, labour, national accounts, population and tourism.
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World Bank Open DataProvides download access to over 2000 indicators from the World Bank data sets including World Development Indicators.
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Millenium Development Goals - StatisticsThe eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest.
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Europa World PlusOnline version of the Europa World Year Book with statistics, political and economic information from over 250 countries.
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Direction of Trade Statistics (International Monetary Fund)The DOT database contains time series data from 1980. Direction of Trade Statistics provides critical data on the value of merchandise exports and imports between each country and all its trading partners.
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Government Finance Statistics (IMF)GFS Online contains detailed annual statistical data on revenue, expense, transactions in assets and liabilities, and stocks of assets and liabilities of general government and its subsectors as reported by member countries going back to 1990.
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International Financial Statistics (International Monetary Fund Statistics)The IFS database contains approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries and areas. Data can be exported in Excel, CSV, Tab delimited, and HTML formats. Limited to authorized U-M users.
Last Updated: Nov 20, 2025 10:45 AM
Subjects: International Studies
Tags: country profiles, global health, ngo, study abroad