Health datasets

Age-adjusted death rates for the 10 leading causes of death in the United States from 1999 onwards. Data from NCHS National Vital Statistics System, based on resident death certificates from all 50 states and DC. Causes are classified using ICD-10 and ranked by number of deaths.

Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

Producer Price Index for pharmaceutical preparations, monthly, 2001-present. Base period June 2001=100. Tracks what drug manufacturers charge for prescription drugs at the wholesale level.

CDC National Immunization Survey data. Vaccination coverage rates by state, age group, and vaccine type. Critical for monitoring immunization program effectiveness.

Employee Benefits Survey from the National Compensation Survey. Measures the incidence and detailed provisions of employer-sponsored benefits including healthcare plans, retirement plans, paid leave, insurance, and other benefits. Covers private industry and state/local government workers separately.

The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available.

Provisional drug overdose death counts from the CDC Vital Statistics Rapid Release (VSRR) program. Covers all 50 states, DC, and US territories from 2015 to present, broken out by drug type including synthetic opioids (fentanyl), heroin, cocaine, psychostimulants (methamphetamine), and all opioids combined. Updated monthly with provisional data subject to revision. Approximately 55,000 records.

Uninsured rate and count by state from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates, 2009 onward. Covers all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, and the national total. 2020 is missing because the Census Bureau did not release standard ACS 1-year estimates that year due to COVID-19 data collection disruptions. Counts are persons in the civilian noninstitutionalized population. Pulled from the Census Data API: table S2701 (Health Insurance Coverage Status) for 2010 onward and the DP03 data profile for 2009.

State and national provisional counts for live births, deaths, and infant deaths from the CDC National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Vital Statistics Rapid Release (VSRR) program. Monthly data by state covering live births, total deaths, and infant deaths. Provisional data subject to revision as additional records are received.

The World Bank Human Capital Index measures the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18, given the risks of poor health and poor education in the country where they live. Scores range from 0 to 1 and represent the productivity of a future worker relative to full health and complete education.

Consumer Price Index for medical care, seasonally adjusted, monthly, 1947-present. Base period 1982-84=100. Medical care CPI has outpaced every other CPI category since the 1940s.

NCHS "Leading Causes of Death: United States" extract from data.cdc.gov (dataset bi63-dtpu): deaths and age-adjusted death rates per 100,000 (2000 US standard population) for the 10 leading causes of death plus all causes, for the United States, the 50 states, and the District of Columbia, 1999-2017. It covers only those 11 cause groups, with no age, sex, or race detail, and ends in 2017; it is not the full CDC WONDER mortality database. NCHS stopped updating this file after 2017; for 2014-2024 state deaths and age-adjusted rates by cause (17 causes, the same death counts on the overlapping years), use cdc/state-mortality-by-cause. Maternal causes are not included. For maternal deaths by state and year from WONDER, use cdc/wonder-maternal-deaths-by-state.

Drug treatment demand data across EU member states from the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) Statistical Bulletin 2025. Includes opioid treatment entrants (all, first-time, and previously treated) and Treatment Demand Indicator (TDI) client characteristics by substance (heroin, cocaine, cannabis, amphetamine, methamphetamine, etc.). The European equivalent of SAMHSA TEDS from the US plan. Note: URLs contain a version path (stats2025) that changes annually.

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) patient experience survey results from the CMS Provider Data Catalog. Covers 4,400+ participating hospitals with scores on nurse and doctor communication, staff responsiveness, pain management, medicine communication, discharge information, care transition, hospital environment, and overall rating. Updated quarterly.

Medicaid opioid prescribing rates by geography from CMS. State and national level rates including total and long-acting opioid prescribing, year-over-year changes, with breakdowns by plan type (FFS, Managed Care).

Weekly case counts of nationally notifiable diseases by reporting area from the CDC NNDSS. Reports current week cases, cumulative year-to-date counts, and previous 52-week maximums for conditions including anthrax, cholera, hepatitis, measles, pertussis, salmonellosis, and more. Data covers US states, territories, and regions with MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) week/year identifiers. Updated weekly.

Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) designations for primary care from HRSA. Contains shortage area scores (0-25, higher = more shortage), designation types, provider ratios, and population data with county FIPS codes and geographic coordinates. Primary care HPSAs are used to determine eligibility for National Health Service Corps placements and Medicare incentive payments. Each row is one component of a designation (a county, county subdivision, census tract or facility), not one shortage area: a single HPSA can span dozens of rows, and HPSA-level fields (score, designation population, FTE, shortage) repeat on every one of them. The file also keeps every withdrawn designation back to the 1990s, which is most of the rows. To count shortage areas in effect today, keep hpsa_status in ('Designated', 'Proposed For Withdrawal') (a designation proposed for withdrawal stays in force until HRSA withdraws it) and count distinct hpsa_id; the active-hpsas view does exactly that, one row per HPSA, and is the default. Summing population over raw rows double counts.

Probability of dying between ages 30 and 70 from cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease, from the WHO Global Health Observatory. SDG indicator 3.4.1, covering 180+ countries from 2000 onward with breakdowns by sex. NCDs account for 74% of global deaths. Values represent the probability (%) that a 30-year-old would die from one of these four diseases before reaching age 70.

All drug recall and enforcement actions reported to the FDA. Includes recalling firm, reason for recall, classification (I/II/III severity), product description, distribution pattern, and dates. Drug recalls can create temporary shortages and pricing dynamics. ~17,500 records.

What Medicare Part D (the largest US drug buyer) spends per drug. Includes brand names, generic names, claim counts, beneficiary counts, and total spending across years 2019-2023. Shows where Medicare drug dollars go and how costs are changing over time.