Research Guides @ Fordham: Demographic Data & Statistics: Health

How to use this page

To find demographic data & statistics, evaluate the names and descriptions of resources posted on this page. Click on the links and open up the resources you think might have information related to your research needs.

Once inside the resources, try:
- Navigating the website with any menus or buttons on the page, as well as scrolling up and down, to browse available information.
- Find a search box with the magnifying glass search icon and enter keywords related to your research topic to find available information.

Federal Government Resources

Learning resources:

Finding and Using Health Statistics – Tutorial
Learning resource from the U.S. National Library of Medicine covering the different types of health statistics, how they are collected, and where they can be found.

Selected reports:

Health, United States Annual Report
Analyzes trends and health statistics in four overarching areas: health status and determinants, health care utilization, health care resources, and health expenditures and payers.

Resources to search for data & statistics:

National Center for Health Statistics
Provides official health statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
→ Use FastStats for help finding statistics by health topic.

National Institute of Mental Health Statistics
Provides statistics on the prevalence and treatment of mental illnesses among the U.S. population.

Health Statistics via Census.gov
Search for health statistics collected by the United States Census Bureau.

City & State Sources

NYC Health Data
Explore the data resources on each tab (Interact and Visualize, Datasets, Publications) to learn about health information and surveys collected by the city.

New York City Community Health Profiles
Compiles health information for the city's 59 community districts.

New York State Department of Health – Data & Reports
Provides access to state-level health statistics, data dashboard, and reports.

Data from Organizations (U.S. focus)

KFF
A leading health information organization using policy research, polling, public data, and journalism to share national health information.

Data Tools from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
Offers health data tools from funded projects including place-based data dashboards: City Health Dashboard, Congressional District Health Dashboard, and PLACES.

International Sources

World Health Statistics 2025: Monitoring Health for the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals by World Health Organization
May 15, 2025

The Global Health Observatory from the World Health Organization (WHO)
Landing page to search for a wide range of data and statistics by indicator, country, and theme for member countries of the United Nations. Includes datasets, data dashboards, maps, reports, publications, and more.

Data360 from The World Bank Group
Search for data and statistics through this consolidated platform of datasets and indicators from across the World Bank Group.

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