Global Health Data Exchange alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of Global Health Data Exchange, shown against it.

	Global Health Data Exchange	The DHS Program	World Bank Microdata Library	UNICEF Data
Vendor	Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington	USAID (with support from the Gates Foundation and implementing partners)	World Bank Group	UNICEF
Pricing model	Free	Free	Free	Free
Free tier	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Deployment	Cloud	Cloud	Cloud	Cloud
Open source	No	No	No	No
Best for	Epidemiologists and health-policy researchers needing traceable global health data provenance and GBD outputs.	Global health researchers, governments and NGOs needing comparable household survey data across developing countries.	Development economists and researchers needing household-level survey microdata from low- and middle-income countries.	Development researchers and agencies tracking child health, education and protection indicators globally.
Pricing	Free catalog and data downloads, maintained by IHME as part of the Global Burden of Disease study. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.	Free with registration for microdata access; aggregated indicators and API available without registration. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.	Free access to most datasets; some third-party-owned datasets carry additional access restrictions. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.	Free statistical portal maintained by UNICEF; all databases and reports are publicly funded and openly published. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.
Features	Searchable catalog of health surveys, censuses and vital statistics worldwide Citations and provenance for all Global Burden of Disease (GBD) data inputs Downloadable prepackaged GBD results files Disability weights, cause-ICD code maps and other GBD documentation Search by keyword, location, data type and year Linked Sources Tool listing input sources used in IHME research	400+ nationally representative health and population surveys across ~100 countries Free registered access to de-identified household survey microdata STATcompiler tool for querying aggregated indicators Public API for programmatic indicator access Geographic/spatial data repository for GIS analysis Biomarker data (e.g. anemia, HIV testing) linked to survey responses	Central catalog of household survey and administrative microdata Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) collection Global Findex financial-inclusion survey data UNHCR refugee and UNICEF MICS survey collections International metadata-standard documentation for each dataset Search and browse across a central catalog and specialized collections	Global databases for nearly 200 countries on child mortality, health and nutrition Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates produced with WHO and the World Bank Education, water/sanitation and child-protection indicator databases Annual data updates drawn from surveys, censuses and administrative records Downloadable datasets and topic-based statistical reports Country profile pages summarizing key child-welfare indicators

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