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BackgroundThe Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study provides detailed information about leading causes of premature mortality and disability to help policy makers assess health in their countries. GBD is also a massive and rigorous audit of country data collection systems. Globally, major challenges are posed by missing data on mortality and causes of death and disability, which creates substantial uncertainty in GBD estimates for numerous causes in many countries. This study aims to identify gaps in data sources that are important to fill to improve estimation of disease burden; gaps exist because data are either not collected or not being made available for research.