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Mortality data

These web pages provide information on levels of mortality and causes of death.

LEVELS OF MORTALITY AND CHILD MORTALITY BY CAUSE

• Life Tables for WHO Member States
  To assess the overall levels of health achievement, it is crucial to develop the best possible assessment of the life table for each country.
• 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.
• Neonatal mortality
  Mortality during the neonatal period accounts for a large proportion of under-5 deaths; the proportion of neonatal deaths is expected to increase as countries continue to witness a decline in under-5 mortality rate.
• Child mortality, by cause
  Reducing child mortality continues to be a global priority and achievement of the MDG of child mortality is possible only if the major causes of deaths are addressed by maternal, newborn and child health interventions.
• Maternal mortality
  MDG 5 Target 5A calls for the reduction of maternal mortality ratio by three quarters between 1990 and 2015.
• 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.

MORTALITY AND BURDEN OF DISEASE STATISTICS

• Disease and injury country estimates
  Deaths, DALYs, HALE, LE
• Disease and injury regional estimates
  Deaths, DALYs, YLL, YLD, prevalence, incidence
• Risk factor estimates
  Deaths, DALYs, PAFs, prevalence

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
• 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

VERBAL AUTOPSY AS AN ALTERNATIVE MEASURE TO ASCERTAIN CAUSES OF DEATH

• Verbal Autopsy Standards: Ascertaining and attributing causes of death
  Manual including new standard data collection and cause-of-death assignment resources for verbal autopsy, and providing some general guidelines for their use.
• 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

• 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