The Human Mortality Database (HMD) is the world's leading scientific data resource on mortality in developed countries. The HMD provides detailed high-quality harmonized mortality and population estimates to researchers, students, journalists, policy analysts, and others interested in human longevity. The HMD follows open data principles.
For users who seek fast access to the most commonly used summary indicators of period mortality, we provide excel tables comprising the following indicators for all the HMD countries:
HMD summary indicators
We seek to provide open, international access to these data. At present, the database contains detailed period and cohort mortality data for the following countries:
Data by country or area
DOIs for the core HMD (see mortality.org/Data/ZippedDataFiles) and HMD summary indicators introduced.
To facilitate rapid downloads, the database has been organized into zipped data files.