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

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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: 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.

Data access: publicly available. Data can be downloaded with the "Download dataset" button in the following page. Click here to access. There is also 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.