93 United States Mortality Database (USMDB)

93.1 Organization

University of California, Berkeley & National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

93.3 Description

  • State-level life tables designed to foster research on geographic variations in mortality across the United States and to monitor trends in health inequalities
  • Includes complete and abridged life tables by sex for each of the US 9 Census Divisions, 4 Census Regions, 50 States and the District of Columbia, for each year since 1959 with mortality values up to age 110.

93.4 Vintage/Release Frequency

Annual since 1959

93.5 Observational Unit

State, Census division or region

93.6 Collection Methodology

  • Contains original calculations of death rates and life tables for the United States resident population as well as for the 4 US Census regions, the 9 US Census divisions, the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
  • The input data used to construct the mortality series are death counts and birth counts from the US vital statistics system, as well as census counts and population estimates from the US Census Bureau.

93.7 Available at

https://usa.mortality.org/

93.9 Cost

Free for download

93.10 Proposal or Application required?

No

93.11 DUA required?

No

93.12 Special Notes