<p>For rare diseases, you can use <a href="http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/Disease_Search.php?lng=EN" rel="noreferrer">Orphanet</a>. You can download an xml file with prevalence from <a href="http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/index.php?lng=EN" rel="noreferrer">orphadata</a>.</p>

<p>There is an OWL version of Orphanet called <a href="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/ordo" rel="noreferrer">ORDO</a>, you can browse it on the EBI Ontology Lookup Service. See for example <a href="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/ordo/terms?iri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.orpha.net%2FORDO%2FOrphanet_247" rel="noreferrer">Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy</a> and point prevalence relationships in the lower right box. There are a variety of programmatic ways to access this, including the OLS web API, SPARQL queries, or downloading the OWL and using an ontology API.</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2017-10-22T18:16:23.413Z
2017-10-22T18:16:23.413Z
Chris Mungall
<p>Comment as an answer, as requested.</p>

<p>The <a href="http://www.tdrdata.com/ipd/ipd_init" rel="noreferrer">Incidence and Prevalance Database</a> (IPD - subscription required).</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2017-10-23T00:11:05.690Z
2017-10-23T00:11:05.690Z
neilfws
<p>I want to collect data on how common different diseases are in different populations (or, at least, globally). Ideally, it would give me a way of querying the database with a disease name, and would return the number of cases per N population.</p>
<p>My main objective is to have a general idea of how prevalent a disease is, I am not trying to track current outbreaks, so I am not too bothered if the information is a little out of date, as long as the database is still maintained and not abandoned.</p>
<p>I have found <a href="https://medicapps.cardiff.ac.uk/fidd/about.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">FIDD</a>, but it seems to be no longer maintained. Are there any actively maintained, similar tools that have the information I am after?</p>

<database><public-databases>
Is there a database of disease prevalence?
# Is there a database of disease prevalence?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-10-19)

I want to collect data on how common different diseases are in different populations (or, at least, globally). Ideally, it would give me a way of querying the database with a disease name, and would return the number of cases per N population.

My main objective is to have a general idea of how prevalent a disease is, I am not trying to track current outbreaks, so I am not too bothered if the information is a little out of date, as long as the database is still maintained and not abandoned.

I have found [FIDD](https://medicapps.cardiff.ac.uk/fidd/about.aspx), but it seems to be no longer maintained. Are there any actively maintained, similar tools that have the information I am after?

**Tags:** database, public-databases

---

## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-10-22. Score: 6

For rare diseases, you can use [Orphanet](http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/Disease_Search.php?lng=EN). You can download an xml file with prevalence from [orphadata](http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/index.php?lng=EN).

There is an OWL version of Orphanet called [ORDO](https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/ordo), you can browse it on the EBI Ontology Lookup Service. See for example [Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy](https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/ordo/terms?iri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.orpha.net%2FORDO%2FOrphanet_247) and point prevalence relationships in the lower right box. There are a variety of programmatic ways to access this, including the OLS web API, SPARQL queries, or downloading the OWL and using an ontology API.


---

### Answer by username_2 on 2017-10-23. Score: 6

Comment as an answer, as requested.

The [Incidence and Prevalance Database](http://www.tdrdata.com/ipd/ipd_init) (IPD - subscription required).


---

