What's New?

 

See the Data Availability page for a list of the populations currently included in the HMD, with the range of years covered by the period life tables and the date last updated.

Changes to the HMD

Additions, updates, and changes to the Human Mortality Database (HMD) are listed below in reverse chronological order:

Date Description of HMD Update
06/04/2008 Poland (1958-2006) added as a new country.
05/13/2008 Data for Czech Republic were revised and updated through 2006.
05/13/2008 Data for Total Germany, East Germany, and West Germany were revised and updated through 2006.
04/10/2008 Data for England and Wales were revised and updated through 2005.
04/09/2008 Data for Canada were revised and updated through 2005.
04/09/2008 Data for United States were revised and updated through 2005.
02/25/2008 Data for Spain were revised (including death counts for 2005) and updated through 2006.
02/04/2008 Data for Portugal were revised and updated through 2006.
01/28/2008 Data for Netherlands were revised and updated through 2006.   Deaths for 1860, 1913, and 2000-2002 were revised.
01/24/2008 Luxembourg (1960-2005) added to HMD.
12/18/2007 Data for Japan were revised and updated through 2006.
12/10/2007 Data for Ukraine were revised and updated through 2006
11/19/2007 Population estimates for Spain 2002-2006 were revised.
11/09/2007 Data for Switzerland were revised and updated through 2006.
11/02/2007 Data for Italy were revised and updated through 2004.
10/11/2007 Data for Belgium were revised;  a correction was made to the estimated sex distribution for deaths at age 0 in 1868-1876 and ages 1-9 in 1876.
10/08/2007 Data for Finland were revised and updated through 2006.
10/05/2007 Data for Iceland were revised and updated through 2006.
09/19/2007 Data for Russia were revised and updated through 2006.
09/11/2007 Data for the Slovak Republic were revised and updated thru 2006. Raw data on births for 1963, 1968, 1976, and 1978 were updated with recently revised counts.
09/07/2007 Slovenia (1983-2006) added as a new country.
08/30/2007 Data for Norway were revsied and updated through 2006.
08/13/2007 Data for Sweden were revsied and updated through 2006.
08/10/2007 Data for Denmark were revised and updated through 2006.
07/31/2007 Data for Japan were revised and updated through 2005.
07/30/2007 Data for Taiwan were revised and updated through 2005.
07/30/2007 Data for the United States were revised; birth counts for 1933-1959 were replaced with counts that have been adjusted for under-registration.
07/19/2007 Data for France (Total & Civilian) were revised and updated through 2005. Raw data on population estimates for 2000-05 were updated with recently published revised estimates.
07/10/2007 Belarus (1959-2005) added as a new country.
05/22/2007 Data for the United States were revised, extended backwards to 1933, and updated through 2004.
05/22/2007 Data for Spain were revised: raw death counts for 1975-2004, which previously included an open age interval at the oldest ages, were updated to include deaths by Lexis triangle to the maximum age attained.
05/22/2007 Data for France (Total & Civilian) have been revised: the birth counts for 1893, 1896, 1946-1952, 1956, 1959, and 1974 were corrected; and the raw death counts for 1998-2004, which previously included an open age interval for ages 105+, were updated to include deaths by Lexis triangle to the maximum age attained.
05/22/2007 Data for Belgium were revised and updated through 2005.
05/22/2007 Data for Portugal were revised and extended backwards to 1940.
05/10/2007 Data for Belgium were revised; a data entry error in the birth count for males in 1996 was corrected.
05/10/2007 Taiwan (1970-2004) added to HMD.
04/26/2007 Updated data (1947-2005) for Austria were reposted; errors in population estimates for 1982-2000 have been corrected, which affects all population estimates since 1981. In addition, we now use December 31st population estimates for 1951-1970, whereas earlier HMD data for Austria used July 1st estimates for this period.
04/06/2007 Data for Lithuania were revised and updated through 2005.
04/05/2007 Due to the discovery of potential errors in the updated data for Austria, those data were removed from the HMD website and the previous version of the data (1947-2002) was reposted.
03/23/2007 Data for Austria were revised and updated through 2005.
03/14/2007 Data for East Germany (1956-2004) were revised.
03/12/2007 Data for Spain were revised and updated through 2005.
03/06/2007 Data for Latvia were revised and updated through 2005.
03/02/2007 Estonia (1959-2005) added as a new country.
03/01/2007 Data for Bulgaria were revised and updated through 2005.
02/26/2007 Data for Hungary were revised and updated through 2005.
02/26/2007 Data for Belgium were revised and extended backwards to 1841.
02/23/2007 Data for Australia were revised and updated through 2004.
02/23/2007 Data for Canada were revised and updated through 2004.
02/23/2007 Data for Finland were revised and updated through 2005.
02/23/2007 Data for Iceland were revised and updated through 2005.
02/23/2007 Data for Norway were revised and updated through 2005.
02/16/2007 Data for East and West Germany were revised and updated through 2004.
02/08/2007 Data for Germany were revised and updated through 2004.
01/23/2007 Data for Denmark were revised and updated through 2005.
12/11/2006 Data for France (Civilian and Total Population) were revised and updated through 2004.
11/13/2006 Data for the United States were revised, extended backwards to 1946, and updated through 2003.
11/14/2006 Data for Canada were revised and updated through 2003.
11/13/2006 Data for Sweden were revised and updated through 2005.
10/27/2006 Data for Switzerland were revised and updated through 2005.
10/10/2006 Data for Portugal were revised and updated through 2005.
10/06/2006 Data for Russia were revised and updated through 2005.
08/22/2006 Data for Italy were revised and updated through 2003.
08/18/2006 Portugal (1956-2004) added to HMD.
07/05/2006 Ukraine (1959-2005) added to HMD.
05/17/2006 Data for the Czech Republic were revised and updated through 2004.
05/17/2006 Data for the Netherlands were revised and updated through 2004.
05/08/2006 Data for the Slovak Republic were revised, extended backwards to 1950, and updated through 2005.
04/24/2006 Data for Iceland were revised and updated through 2004.
04/21/2006 Data for Japan were revised and updated through 2004.
04/10/2006 Data for Finland were revised and updated through 2004.
04/10/2006 Data for Norway were revised and updated through 2004
04/10/2006 Data for Spain were revised and updated through 2004.
03/30/2006 Data for the Civilian Population of France (1899-2003) added to HMD.
03/13/2006 Cohort life tables (1850-1912) added for the Netherlands.
03/03/2006 Data for Sweden were revised and updated through 2004.
02/10/2006 Added Lexis Maps of "raw death counts" and "raw population counts" to "8. Raw Data" section for all countries and areas.
02/02/2006 Data for France were revised and updated through 2003.
01/10/2006 Data for Spain were revised and updated through 2003.
01/10/2006 Data for Italy were revised and updated through 2002.
01/06/2006 Data for Switzerland were revised and updated through 2004.
11/30/2005 Australia (1921-2003) and Iceland (1838-2002) added as new countries.
10/25/2005 Data for civilian as well as total population of England and Wales (1841-2003) added to HMD.
10/24/2005 Slovak Republic (1980-2003) added as a new country.
10/11/2005 Entire HMD were revised and updated to incorporate several major methodological changes (see p.1 of the revised Methods Protocol). In addition, Russia was extended back to 1959 and updated through 2001; Hungary were revised and updated through 2001; Austria, Canada, Germany (Unified, East, and West), Japan, and the United States were revised and updated through 2002; England and Wales were revised and updated through 2003; Denmark were revised and updated through 2004. Finally, the data series for the national population of New Zealand were changed to begin in 1948 (rather than 1937) because of data quality issues for the 1937-47 data.
03/01/2005 Belgium (1931-2002) added to HMD.
02/25/2005 Data for Switzerland were revised and updated through 2003.
02/15/2005 Data for Denmark were revised, extended back to 1835, and updated through 2002.
01/27/2005 Data for France were revised and updated through 2002. Data for Sweden were revised and updated through 2003.
01/20/2005 Data for Bulgaria were revised and updated through 2003. Lithuanian data revised, extended back to 1959, and updated through 2003. Data for Spain revised and updated through 2002. Data for Italy revised and updated through 2001.
12/09/2004 Data for Czech Republic were revised and updated through 2003.
12/06/2004 Data for Latvia were revised and updated through 2003.
10/11/2004 Data for New Zealand national population (1937-2003), Maori (1937-2003), and non-Maori (1876-2003) added to the HMD.
09/08/2004 Data for the Netherlands were revsied, extended back to 1850, and updated through 2003.
08/25/2004 Data for Norway were revised and updated through 2002.
08/23/2004 Cohort death rates (1791-1970) and cohort life tables (1872-1909) added for Italy.
07/22/2004 Latvia (1959-2001) added as a new country.
06/03/2004 Data for Finland were revised, updated through 2002, and extended back to 1878. French population estimates for 1991-1998 were revised.
03/16/2004 Data for France were revised and updated through 2001.
03/04/2004 Spain (1908-2001) added to the HMD.
02/09/2004 Cohort life tables available on-line for England & Wales, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. Cohort death rates and exposure available for most populations (if the time series is sufficiently long).
01/22/2004 Data for Switzerland were revised and updated through 2002. Data for Italy were revised and updated through 2000 and historical data added (back to 1872). Data for Sweden were revised and updated through 2002 and historical data added (back to 1751).
01/01/2004 Czech Republic (1948-2001) added to the HMD.
08/18/2003 Lithuania (1960-2001) added to the HMD.
04/15/2003 Data for Italy were revised and updated through 1999 and historical data added (back to 1906). Data for Sweden were revised and updated through 2001.
03/20/2003 Data for Switzerland were revised and updated through 2001.
02/11/2003 New version of French data released with corrections.
05/15/2002 HMD debut: Data available on-line for 17 countries.