Below are some reputable web resources for finding data and statistics on wellness behaviors. Read the descriptions below each resource to learn more about the types of data available.
A platform for accessing data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau. The vision for data dissemination through data.census.gov is to improve the customer experience by making data available from one centralized place so that data users spend less time searching for data content and more time using it.
National Center for Health Statistics is part of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This resource provides US public health statistics including diseases, pregnancies, births, aging, and mortality. It provides links to additional health statistics resources and fact sheets as well as public use data files for download.
The RLS surveys more than 35,000 Americans from all 50 states about their religious affiliations, beliefs and practices, and social and political views. Explore religious groups in the U.S. by tradition, family and denomination.
The Environmental Dataset Gateway (EDG) provides a single point to discover and access EPA's Open Data resources. The EDG contains metadata records contributed by EPA Regions, Program Offices, and Research Laboratories. Some data categories included in the website are: air, environmental justice, sustainability, and water.
Includes Country Report (political and economic analysis and forecasts for 189 countries) and Country Data (analysis of each country's economic health and prospects).
GHO is the World Health Organization's main health statistics repository. It contains an extensive list of health indicators, multi-dimensional query functionality, and a world map gallery displaying important health themes.
This is considered a standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. The IFS database contains approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries and areas and includes all series appearing on the IFS Country Pages; exchange rate series for all Fund member countries, plus Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles; major Fund accounts series; and most other world, area, and country series from the IFS World Tables. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation that works to build better policies for better lives. Their data includes GDP charts, income information, trade in goods, and many other charts.
The research publications on Our World in Data are dedicated to a large range of global problems in health, education, violence, political power, human rights, war, poverty, inequality, energy, hunger, and humanity’s impact on the environment.
The Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project analyzes religious change and its impact on societies around the world. It contains data and news on patterns in religious beliefs and practices, including how they shape people's social values and political attitudes, trends in religious affiliation, including the current and projected size of the world's major religious groups, comparisons of restrictions on the practice of religion, including restrictions imposed by governments as well as social groups, organizations and individuals
Provides a single search point for multiple international statistical databases. Includes data on including agriculture, crime, communication, development assistance, education, energy, environment, finance, gender, health, labour market, manufacturing, national accounts, population and migration, science and technology, tourism, transport and trade.
The Statistical Yearbook provides in a single volume a comprehensive compilation of internationally available statistics on social and economic conditions and activities, at world, regional and national levels, for an appropriate historical period. It is prepared by the Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, of the United Nations Secretariat.
Provides access to statistics produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities. Includes: American Statistics Index (ASI) A&I and PDF, Statistical Reference Index (SRI) A&I and PDF, Index to International Statistics (IIS) A&I and PDF, Tables and Data Sets.