Health Care Industry Data Brief

Last updated: 21 June 2021

COVID-19 Cases
Worldwide

COVID-19 Deaths
Worldwide

Infant Mortality Rate in theWorld

New HIV Cases
Worldwide

Life Expectancy atBirth GloballyEstimated Global
Health Spending

178.4

3.8

28.1

1.7

72.6

9.0

mln cases on Jun 20, 2021

mln deaths on Jun 20, 2021
Year-over-year change |-2.4%

deaths/1,000 live births in 2019-2.0%

mln. cases in 2019+0.3%

years in 2019

+2.8%

trln. US dollars in 2020

Link to a resource | Source name | Data frequency (annual, monthly) | Available time period

Popular Publications

Health Status

Health Observatory| WHO | A | 1920-2050

Health Status

Health and Nutrition| WB | A | 1960-2020

Healthy Life Expectancy

Data on priority health topics: mortality, disease burden, risk factors, health systems, etc.
Key health, nutrition, and population data gathered from a variety of sources.

| OECD | A | 1960-2019

Life expectancy, maternal mortality, and causes of death.

| IHME | A | 1990-2017

Cause specific DALYs age-standardized rate in the world and life expectancy at birth.

Cancer Statistics| IHME | A | 2005-2016

Cancer incidents according to sex and type and disability-adjusted life years rate.

Health Financing
Development Assistance

Population Prospects| IHME | A | 1990-2030| UNDESA | A | 1950-2100

Infant mortality rate and life expectancy at birth globally and for 163 countries.

Development assistance for nutrition, vaccines and other program areas.

Health Accounts

General government and private health expenditures of 191 countries.

| WHO | A | 2000-2018

Disease Burden

Health Financing| OECD | A | 1970-2019

AIDSinfo Statistics

Distribution of expenditures on health by function in the US and 37 other countries.

Health Spending| IHME | A | 2018-2050| UNAIDS | A | 1990-2020

HIV incidence rate and number of AIDS related deaths worldwide.

Measles Cases| WHO | M | 2011-2021

US Exit from WHO Would Cut Nearly 25% of Funding

Cancer in the US| ACS | A | 2001-2021

Assessed Member contributions remain a key source of WHO’s financing, and theUnited States makes up nearly 25 percent of that budget.

Ebola Virus Disease

Expected health spending and development assistance for health per capita as well.

Monthly distribution of measles cases by country and by month.
Estimated new cancer cases by state and by type and distribution by sex in the US.

| CDC | A | 1976-2021

Known cases and outbreaks of Ebola virus disease.

Malaria Statistics

Risk Factors
Tobacco Smoking Trends

COVID-19 Data

| WHO | A | 2000-2025

Tobacco and cigarette consumption per day and global trends on smoking prevalence.

Body Mass Index| Eurostat | A | 2008-2017

Rankings of European countries, by share of population: overweight, pre-obese, obese.

Health Factors| WHO | A | 1990-2019

Confirmed and presumed malaria cases in the world and number of population at risk.

| OECD | A | 1960-2019| CSSE | D | 2019-2021

Coronavirus cases and deaths on the global, regional, national and sub-national levels.

Non-Communicable DiseaseNon-communicable diseases (NCDs) kill about 40 million people annually. The
major common lifestyle risk factors of non-communicable diseases are discussed.

Alcohol and tobacco consumption and other non-medical health determinants.

Air Pollution Database| WHO | A | 2008-2019

Air pollution levels and health impacts in the US and other 106 countries.

Health Systems

Global Hunger Index

Health Care Quality| OECD | A | 2000-2018

Health-Related SDG| IHME | A | 1990-2030| IFPRI | A | 1980-2020

Country comparison by hunger index, % of undernourished & hunger-related indicators.

Overweight in the US| CDC | A | 2011-2019

Share of population with a BMI level between 25 to 29.9 by state.

Global Burden of Disease

Measures of health care quality in different health sectors.

HIV incidents, under-5 mortality & other health indicators projections for 195 countries.

| IHME | A | 2016-2019

The study estimated the risk outcome from alcohol use and other risk factors.

Clean Air, Healthy Lungs
The IARC at the WHO classifies particulate matter, the main component of airpollution, as carcinogenic and links air pollution and lung cancer.

Health Profile
Key health indicators cover such topics as health expenditure, life expectancy atbirth, immunization coverage among children, risk factors and others.

Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices

Healthcare Resources

Pharmaceutical Market

Employment Statistics

Foreign Trade| ILO | A | 1991-2020

Ranking of number of people employed in the healthcare industry by country.

Labor Cost Index| Eurostat | Q | 1996-2021

Wages and salaries y-o-y change in the health care industries of European countries.

Health Care Resources| OECD | A | 1960-2019

Physicians, dentists, other specialists and total employment density in OECD countries.

Physicians Staff| OECD | A | 1980-2019

Consumption of analgesics and other pharmaceuticals per day in OECD countries.

| Eurostat | A | 1985-2019

Distribution of physicians according to medical speciality within European countries.

| COMTRADE | A | 1988-2020

Export and import of pharmaceutical products and medical devices by partner country.

Medical Companies| MDDI | A | 2015-2019

Top 100 medical device companies by revenue and market capitalization.

Stock Market Exuberance Over COVID-19 Vaccine?
Pharma companies have demonstrated strong growth compared to general S&P
growth of 18%.

Coronavirus Outbreak – Data and Insights
Live data and insights on Coronavirus outbreak around the world. Confirmed
and recovered cases, deaths, alternative data on economic
EXPLORE
activities, customer behavior, supply chains and more.

Sources referenced and acronyms used:
ACS – American Cancer Society, CDC – U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COMTRADE – the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database, CSSE - The Center for Systems
Science and Engineering at JHU, Eurostat, IFPRI – International Food Policy Research Institute, IHME – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, ILO – International Labour Organization,
MDDI – Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry, OECD – Organization for Economic Co–operation and Development, UNAIDS – Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, UNCOMTRADE– United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database, UNDESA – United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, WB – World Bank, WHO – World Health Organization, WTO –World Trade Organization.