Database: European mortality database (MDB) (European Union)

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Type of Database: registry

Primary purpose: To facilitate the analysis of age- and sex-specific mortality trends across broad disease groups and 67 specific causes of death, using data dating back to 1980 from the WHO Global Mortality Database.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: WHO Europe.

Type of information: longitudinal. age; year; region; sex; number of deaths; causes of death.

Data Dictionary: European mortality database (MDB).

Source of Information: Varies for each indicator. Source can be checked by clicking on the indicators in the following list. Click here to learn more.

Data level: national level, global level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date range: 1980 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more by choosing the "Neoplasms databases".

Data access: publicly available. Data can be downloaded with the "Download dataset" button in the following page. Click here to access. Also, choosing the variables, data can be downloaded in the formats PNG; JPEG; PDF; SVG; CSV and XLS. There is a data explorer containing three full datasets. Click here to access. Additionally, there is a data warehouse with these and other databases to be downloaded or used via API, including JSON files. Click here to access.

Contact information: Contact information is at the bottom of any page on the website.