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INDEPTH Network Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS)

International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH)
HDB-0080

INDEPTH operates 47 health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) field sites across 19 countries in Africa, Asia, and Oceania, capturing longitudinal data on vital events and population health for over 3.8 million individuals. The network provides access to fully documented datasets through its data repository (data.indepth-network.org), enabling research on mortality, fertility, migration, and disease patterns in low- and middle-income countries.

Category
Open dataset
Access
Credentialed
Region
Global
Coverage
47 HDSS sites across Africa, Asia, and Oceania; 3.8+ million individuals tracked
Data types
vital events, mortality, fertility, migration, demographic surveillance
longitudinal cohorthealth surveillancesub-Saharan Africamulti-country
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Record HDB-0080 · last verified 2026-08-05 · listed in Open datasets

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