Items corresponding to entire populations or subpopulations. Might be geographically or temporally temporally limited.

population

This page serves as the central data resource hub for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (GBD 2021), coordinated by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). The study estimated the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors for 204 countries and territories and selected subnational locations. The page provides links to data and code downloads, interactive visualizations, a results tool for exploring estimates across causes and risk factors, and a sources tool for retrieving metadata on input data. Estimates cover mortality, causes of death, DALYs, and risk factors broken down by age, sex, and location from 1980 to 2021.

non-collection specific

(Simple) Released

Comma-separated values: a delimited text file format for tabular data.

Office Open XML Workbook (Microsoft Excel); the modern .xlsx format.

XLSX

R serialized data file (.rds) containing a single saved R object.

Country

Earth

English

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (GBD 2021) Data Resources

A disease or disorder that involves the digestive system.

digestive system disorder

Digestive System Disorder

An organism of a particular biological taxon that is the site of reproduction of an organism of a different taxon.

host organism

Host

The condition of having at least three loose or liquid bowel movements each day.

diarrheal disease

Diarrhea

modeling output

Modeling Output

A disease is a disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism.

disease

Disease

A disease whose physical basis is an infectious disorder

infectious disease

Infectious Disease

One of the three domains of life (the others being Eukarya and ARCHAEA), also called Eubacteria. They are unicellular prokaryotic microorganisms which generally possess rigid cell walls, multiply by cell division, and exhibit three principal forms: round or coccal, rodlike or bacillary, and spiral or spirochetal.

Bacteria

viral Infectious disease

Viruses Infection

A species of gram-positive, aerobic bacteria that produces TUBERCULOSIS in humans, other primates, CATTLE; DOGS; and some other animals which have contact with humans. Growth tends to be in serpentine, cordlike masses in which the bacilli show a parallel orientation.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

A syndrome resulting from the acquired deficiency of cellular immunity caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It is characterized by the reduction of the Helper T-lymphocytes in the peripheral blood and the lymph nodes. Symptoms include generalized lymphadenopathy, fever, weight loss, and chronic diarrhea. Patients with AIDS are especially susceptible to opportunistic infections (usually pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections, tuberculosis, candida infections, and cryptococcosis), and the development of malignant neoplasms (usually non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Kaposi sarcoma). The human immunodeficiency virus is transmitted through sexual contact, sharing of contaminated needles, or transfusion of contaminated blood.

AIDS

includes social, economic, also mental health impact

socio-economic impacts

Socio-economic Impacts

A genus of protozoa that comprise the malaria parasites of mammals. Four species infect humans (although occasional infections with primate malarias may occur). These are PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE, and PLASMODIUM VIVAX. Species causing infection in vertebrates other than man include: PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; P. vinckei, and PLASMODIUM YOELII in rodents; P. brasilianum, PLASMODIUM CYNOMOLGI; and PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI in monkeys; and PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM in chickens.

Plasmodium

 A count of simulated or physical individuals in a population.

Population count

Population Count

An acute infectious disorder that is caused by gram positive or gram negative bacteria; representative examples include pneumococcal, streptococcal, salmonella, and meningeal infections.

bacterial infectious disease

Bacterial Infection

A data set that is about either some mortality rate or the death events themselves of some individuals of a given population of a particular biological taxon.

mortality data

Mortality

Descriptors of the behavior of an outbreak

modeling

Modeling

An infectious disease where a pathogen is carried and transmitted by another organism that acts as disease vector.

vector-borne disease

Vector-borne Infection

Projections of outbreak behavior into some future time, determined relative to a defined starting point. Might include retrospective projects or projections for current activitiy (known as "now-casting").

forecasting

Forecasting

A respiratory tract infection caused by a virus. Viruses represent the most common causes of upper and lower respiratory tract infections and include rhinoviruses, influenza viruses, parainfluenza viruses, and respiratory syncytial virus.

viral respiratory tract infection

Viral Respiratory Tract Infection

A kingdom of eukaryotic, heterotrophic organisms that live parasitically as saprobes, including MUSHROOMS; YEASTS; smuts, molds, etc. They reproduce either sexually or asexually, and have life cycles that range from simple to complex. Filamentous fungi, commonly known as molds, refer to those that grow as multicellular colonies.

Fungi

A census that is the specific outcome of a population demographic survey.

population demographic census

Population Demographic

Minute infectious agents whose genomes are composed of DNA or RNA, but not both. They are characterized by a lack of independent metabolism and the inability to replicate outside living host cells.

Viruses

a census of infectious disease control strategies put into place to reduce infection acquisitions that are part of an infection in an ecosystem.

control strategy census

Control Strategy

Aggregate descriptions of multiple factors invovling susceptibility to outbreaks

risk factors

Risk Factors

Human immunodeficiency virus. A non-taxonomic and historical term referring to any of two species, specifically HIV-1 and/or HIV-2. Prior to 1986, this was called human T-lymphotropic virus type III/lymphadenopathy-associated virus (HTLV-III/LAV). From 1986-1990, it was an official species called HIV. Since 1991, HIV was no longer considered an official species name; the two species were designated HIV-1 and HIV-2.

Human immunodeficiency virus

Infection by an etiologic agent that can be passed between animals and humans.

Zoonotic Infection

Zoonotic infection

A count of individuals in a population who meet the criteria of some case definition during some time interval.

count of disease cases

Case Count

 An information content entity about environmental material, environmental feature, environmental system, etc.

environment information

Environment Information

modeling purpose

Modeling Purpose

A social identity information content entity that is about whether some person identifies as some race.

racial identity information content entity

Race

A Disease due to or propagated by sexual contact.

sexually transmitted disease

Sexually Transmitted Disease

An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's physical expression of sexual characteristics.

phenotypic sex

age-stratified

Age-Stratified

Vaccine preventable diseases are those infectious diseases that can be prevented by vaccination

vaccine-preventable Disease

Vaccine-Preventable Disease

An environmenal dataset about air contaminants that threaten human health.

air quality

Air Quality

Variability or diversity within a population that can influence their health outcomes, risk factors, and response to interventions

Health Heterogeneity

Microbial mechanisms for protecting microorganisms against antimicrobial agents. 

Antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial Resistance

An organism of a particular biological taxon that is the bearer of an infectious dispositions towards an organism of a different particular biological taxon.

pathogen

Pathogen

A collection of links to other data items, often found in external repositories. No claims are made as to the format or consistency of the items associated with those links.

catalog

Topic

Digital Object Type

Geographic Resolution

Apache 2.0

Schema.org vocabulary for structured data on the web

Schema.org

A structured data markup specification for describing datasets in the life sciences, extending schema.org Dataset

Bioschemas Dataset Profile

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Terms - refined elements for precise resource description

DCMI Metadata Terms

W3C Data Catalog Vocabulary for describing data catalogs

Data Catalog Vocabulary

DataCite metadata schema for research data citation

DataCite Metadata Schema

W3C Provenance Ontology for describing provenance information

PROV Ontology

Provenance, Authoring and Versioning ontology for metadata about web resources

PAV Ontology

Custom MIDAS vocabulary for epidemiological data and modeling

MIDAS Metadata Vocabulary

OBO Foundry ontologies for life sciences and biomedical research

Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology

GeoNames Ontology

Health Level 7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

HL7 FHIR

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms

SNOMED Clinical Terms

LOINC database for laboratory and clinical observations

Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes

JSON Schema (Draft 2020-12) defining the structure of MIDAS Catalog JSON-LD metadata records

MIDAS Catalog JSON-LD Schema

Searchable collection of curated datasets and software resources for infectious disease modeling, filterable by disease, topic, location, and time period.

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HTTP Checked On	2026/09/27