WHO Mortality Database
This website provides data on registered deaths by age group, sex, year and cause of death.
About the data and the database
Provides annual data on mortality statistics by age, sex, and cause of death as obtained by civic registration systems in countries.
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WHO Mortality Tables
Number of registered deaths, infant deaths, estimated completeness of mortality data for latest year, estimated coverage of mortality data for latest year -
About the data
National vital registration systems, historical data, comparability, problems in accuracy -
About the database
Updating and querying of the database, submission by member states
Completeness and coverage of death registration data
Describes assessment of quality of death registration data in countries and provides links to literature on this topic.
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Completeness and Coverage
Considerable differences exist in the degree of completeness of the vital registration data submitted by countries... -
Counting the dead and what they died from (Abstract)
We sought to assess the current status of global data on death registration and to examine several indicators of data completeness and quality... -
Counting the dead and what they died from
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An assessment of the global status of cause of death data
Verbal Autopsy to ascertain causes of death
A method to ascertain a probable cause of death by interviewing the relatives of the deceased
Life tables for 191 Countries
These life tables have several uses and form the basis of all WHO's estimates about mortality patterns and levels world-wide. A key use of these life tables is in the construction of healthy life expectancy (HALE) which is the basic indicator of population health levels used by WHO.
International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
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About ICD-10
ICD-10 was endorsed by the Forty-third World Health Assembly in May 1990... -
ICD-10 ONLINE
Tabular List of inclusions and four-character subcategories