Useful Links

Sources of Data

• World Development Indicators
• Governance Indicators: 1996-2008

• World Health Report
• Annual WHO/UNICEF Joint Reporting Form
• World Medicines Situation (2004)

• State of the World's Children

• Surveys

Links to health systems country profiles
• European Observatory’s Health Systems in Transition (HiT) profiles for countries in Europe and Central Asia
• Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) country health profiles for the Americas
• Health Systems Strengthening in Latin America and the Caribbean - Health Systems Country Profiles
• Eastern Mediterranean Regional Health System Observatory (EMRO)
• The Ibrahim Index of African Governance
• WHO Regional Office for Africa - Country Health Profiles
• WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia - Country Health System Profile

Other links to health systems data
• Burden of Disease Statistics, WHO
• Development Data & Statistics, World Bank
• Doing Business
• Health Metrics Network, WHO
• International Monetary Fund, Data and Statistics
• Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), UNICEF
• National Health Accounts: Health Systems 20/20
• World Health Organization
• OECD, Statistics Portal
• OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
• Population Reference Bureau, Datafinder
• United Nations Population Information Network
• UNICEF, Monitoring and Statistics
• WHOSIS (WHO Statistical Information System)


This is not a comprehensive list of all websites providing health systems data. It will be updated over time. For additional links and references by topic, please refer to the specific chapters of The Health Systems Assessment Approach: A How-To Manual.