American Univesity of Beirut

This page provides links to downloadable datasets concerning / of interest to public health in the Arab world
This page will be updated regularly so please visit often.
Suggest additional resources or tell us if a link is broken. Please write us at: phaw-admin@aub.edu.lb

International Development Datasets (​with data on Arab countries)

• CE-DAT: The Complex Emergency Database (Université catholique de Louvain - Brussels, Belgium)(allows for searching different categories of data around some Arab countries with emergency settings - doesn't seem to be working currently)
  
• EdStats (World Bank) (has statistics on Education in Arab countries)
  
• EM-DAT: The International Disaster Database (Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters CRED)
  
• Gender Statistics Programme (UN ESCWA)
  
• Global Food Security Index (Needs regsitration to view content): Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates,  Yemen 
  
• MDG Progress Index (Center for Global Development) (choose the area to the right and click on the country on the map for downloads)
  
• MDGs Indicators - The official UN site for the NDG Indicators (West Asia, Northern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa; Progress reports)
  
• Selected statistics on health workforce demographics (Age, Gender, Geography) (WHO)
  
• World Income Inequality (United Nations University - World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER))
  
• Y-Info (UN ESCWA) (socioeconomic data related to Arab youth)
  

International H​ealth Datasets (with data on Arab countries) 

• African Health Observatory (WHO) (choose "Download", then "Full dataset")
  
• Child Mortality Estimates (use "Click here to explore country data" to the left to explore data per country)
  
• Disease and injury country estimates (WHO)
  
• Global Health Observatory Data Repository (WHO)
  
• Global HIV/AIDS Response (WHO) (information on low and middle income countries in Annexes include data on Arab countries)
  
• HIV/ AIDS Survey Indicators Database - statistics: Comoros, Morocco (1992, 2003-2004)
  
• Immunization Financing (WHO)
  
• Leprosy situation in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (WHO EMRO): 2006, 2005
  
• Oral disease burden (WHO) (with data on Arab countries)
  
• The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program - USAID: Comoros, Egypt, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Yemen & MEASURE DHS (Demographic and Health Surveys) (Downloads available upon registration)
  
• Overweight / Obesity: Obesity (body mass index = 30) by country (WHO)
  
• Pharmaceutical data profile (WHO):
  
• ​Bahrain (2012), Lebanon (2012), Oman (2011), Palestine (2011), Qatar (2011), Yemen (2012)
  
• Vitamin and Mineral Nutrition Information System (VMNIS) (WHO):
  
• Database on Anaemia - Country profiles: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar,  Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, West Bank & Gaza, Yemen
  
• Database on Iodine Deficiency Disorders - Country Profiles: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, West Bank & Gaza, Yemen
  
• WHO Global Database on Vitamin A Deficiency - Country Profiles: Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon,  Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, West Bank & Gaza, Yemen
  
• World Contraceptive Use -2012 (UN DESA)
  
• WHO Collaborative Study on Social and Health Aspects of Aging in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia, 1991 (ICPSR 06250) (it is necessary to register (free of charge) to be able to download data)
  
• WHO Mortality statistics
  

International Datasets with a com​bination of varied topics (with data on Arab countries)

• Earth Policy Institute - All Datasets (contains data in excell form about grain production and consumption, and some demographic and health data related to the Arab countries) 
  
• GIEWS Country Briefs: Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
  
• IraqInfo (contains both socio-economic and health indicators, allows downloading by clicking on the "Export" icon)
  
• United Nations Department of Ecnomic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) - Population Division: Fertility and Family Planning Section
  

National Dev​elopment Datasets

• IHME Disease Registry (Search for countries in the bar)
  
• Lebanese National Cancer Registry: 2005-2007, 2004 & 2003
  
• Saudi Cancer Registry (Sudi Arabia): Incidence Reports
  
• The Social Research Center of The American University in Cairo (SRC) Datasets (needs registration)