WHO Fact Sheet: Cancer

This digital collection includes data visualizations about climate and health, with all of the resources freely available to anyone, without a subscription. The data visualizations are hosted by leading climate, health, news, and data organizations, such as the United Nations Environmental Programme, The Lancet, The New York Times, and Our World in Data. Many of the visualizations pull figures directly from major reports, including the Global Burden of Disease Studies and The Lancet Countdown: Tracking…

This online publication, released by Vital Strategies and Tobacconomics at Johns Hopkins University, examines the state and magnitude of the global tobacco epidemic and explores tobacco-related challenges and solutions. The 7th edition of the Atlas finds that while global smoking prevalence has fallen, there are still 1.1 billion tobacco users worldwide– a crisis posing significant threats to global health and economic development. The Atlas includes featured chapters on “Tobacco and the Environment” and “Race, Ethnicity…

These statistical tables accompany the 2023 World Health Organization (WHO) report, World Health Statistics 2023: Monitoring Health for the SDGs, and include health statistics by country, by WHO region, and globally. Users can download data as an Excel file. World Health Statistics 2023 summarizes recent trends in life expectancy and causes of death, reports on the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and associated targets, and discusses the implications for health policy and health systems strengthening.