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Mortality Data
This website provides information on levels of mortality and causes of death
Mortality Profiles
Mortality Profiles
Mortality Profile provides a comprehensive summary of the most basic health outcome - mortality - for each Member State, including levels and major causes of child and adult mortality. The latest set of mortality statistics was selected on the basis of relevance for global health, availability and quality of data, and accuracy and comparability of estimates. It also presents statistics on the distribution of mortify outcomes within countries, disaggregated by gender, age, urban/rural setting, wealth/assets, and educational level. Such statistics are primarily derived from the analysis of household surveys and are only available for a limited number of countries.
We envisage that the number of countries reporting disaggregated data will increase during the next few years. The mortality statistics are based on an interactive process of data collection, compilation, quality assessment, and estimation between WHO technical programmes and its Member States. All statistics have been cleared as WHO official figures in consultation with Member States unless otherwise stated. The estimates published here should, however, still be regarded as the best estimates by WHO rather than the official view of Member States.
WHO Bulletin special issue on mortality
Volume 84, Number 3, March 2006, 161-256
Counting the dead and determining how they died; HIV/AIDS deaths in Zimbabwe; Lessons from the Field: maternal mortality in Senegal; Public Health Classic: the origins of verbal autopsy
LEVELS OF MORTALITY
Life Tables Online Database
To assess the overall levels of health achievement, it is crucial to develop the best possible assessment of the life table for each country.
Estimates of child and adult mortality and life expectancy at birth by country
Derived from the life tables and published in the annual editions of the World Health Report since 2000.
Modified Logit Life Table System (MODMATCH)
The Modified Logit model life table system is a 2-parameter system based on the Brass logit model and using a global standard.
Child mortality
Under-5 mortality rate is a leading indicator of the level of child health and overall development in countries. It is also a MDG indicator.
WHO MORTALITY DATABASE
Reported deaths by cause
Provides annual reported data on mortality statistics by age, sex, and cause of death as obtained from civil registration systems in countries.
About the data
Sources of data, definition of "underlying cause of death", cause-of-death classification
Download the detailed data files
The files available here do not constitute a user-friendly data collection which the average user can download and access. These are the basic underlying raw data files, together with the necessary instructions, file structures, code reference tables, etc. which can be used by institutions and organizations which need access at this level of detail AND have available the required information technology (IT) resources to use this information.
Tables
Causes of death by country, year, sex, cause and age group. Number of registered deaths, infant deaths, estimated completeness and coverage of mortality data for latest year
Completeness, coverage and quality assessment of death registration data
Provides estimated levels of completeness and coverage of reported data and assesses the quality of cause-of-death data from countries.
Completeness and Coverage
Estimates of the levels of completeness and coverage of reported data for latest available year
Quality assessment of the cause-of-death data [pdf 218kb]
Counting the dead and what they died from
WHO ESTIMATED DEATHS BY CAUSE
Estimates of deaths by cause
World Health Report 1999-2005 editions (annex tables)
Methods for estimating causes of death
2005 WHR statistical annex explanatory notes, global burden of disease in 2002: data sources, methods and results
VERBAL AUTOPSY AS AN ALTERNATIVE MEASURE TO ASCERTAIN CAUSES OF DEATH
Report of the WHO Technical Consultation on Verbal Autopsy Tools [pdf 395kb]
A method to ascertain a probable cause of death by interviewing the relatives of the deceased.
OTHER INFORMATION
Report of the workshop on hospital mortality data analysis, 15-16 May 2008 [pdf 1.21Mb]
Estimating causes of death from biased datasets.
Bulletin on Child Mortality Decline, N° 10, 2000
About the International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems, 10th revision (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
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