The Human Mortality Database
John R. Wilmoth, Director |
University
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Vladimir Shkolnikov, Co-Director |
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research |
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We have recently upgraded the HMD web site. The new site presents the same information but offers features that should be useful for both data users and our web administrator. From the user's point of view, the most important changes are: (1) a more logical organization of the information on individual country pages, and (2) the ability to download large chunks of the database in zipped data files (see link on the sidebar of this page).
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The Human Mortality Database (HMD) was created to provide detailed mortality and population data to researchers, students, journalists, policy analysts, and others interested in the history of human longevity. The project began as an outgrowth of earlier projects in the
Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and at the
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany
(see
history).
It is the work of two teams of researchers in the USA and Germany (see
research teams),
with the help of financial backers and scientific collaborators from around the world (see
acknowledgements).
We seek to provide open, international access to these data. At present the database contains detailed population and mortality data for the following 37 countries or areas:
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For more information, please begin by reading an
overview
of the database.
If you have comments or questions, or trouble gaining access to the data, please write to us
(hmd@mortality.org).
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