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Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) Life Expectancy and Healthy Life Expectancy 1970-2010

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General Info
Provider 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Geography 
Coverage type 
Global
Time period covered 
01/1970 - 12/2010
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Summary 

The GBD Study 2010 estimated the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors globally and for 21 regions for 1990 and 2010. The study was implemented as a collaboration of Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) as coordinating center, University of Queensland, Harvard School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, University of Tokyo, Imperial College London, and WHO.

This dataset provides decennial results for 1970-2010 for life expectancy and results for 1990 and 2010 for healthy life expectancy (HALE), which summarizes mortality and non-fatal outcomes in a single measure of average population health. HALE and life expectancy results were published in The Lancet in December 2012 in the papers “Healthy life expectancy for 187 countries, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the GBD Study 2010,” and "Age‐specific and sex‐specific mortality in 187 countries, 1970–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010."

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