BERKELEY
MORTALITY
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 The Berkeley Mortality Database
Important
note: The Berkeley
Mortality Database (BMD) has been replaced by a bigger and better project,
known as the Human Mortality Database
(HMD). HMD data are superior for most purposes, so we are leaving BMD
data here on a temporary basis, mostly for comparison purposes. However,
some items within the BMD are not yet available within the HMD or elsewhere,
including:
- Japanese cause-of-death
data
- U.S. life tables from
the Social Security Administration (SSA)
- U.S. decennial life tables
from National Center for Health Statistics
- U.S. detailed data by
race
- Swedish period life tables
for 1751-1860
- Swedish cohort life tables
Items 4, 5, and 6 will become
available within HMD very soon. Items 2 and 3 will be moved to the Human
Lifetable Database, a companion project to the HMD, within a few months.
(In addition, we are in the process of updating our copies of the SSA
life tables.) At this time, we have no plans to update Item 1, but it
will continue to be available here or at some other location in the
future.
Welcome! This database was
established in 1997 by Prof. John R. Wilmoth of the Department
of Demography at the University of
California, Berkeley. Construction of the database is supported by
a grant from the National Institute on Aging as a means
of advancing research on human longevity. Our goal is to assemble a large
and detailed collection of mortality data for national populations and
to make those data easily accessible to researchers around the world.
We are hoping to add data for several more countries over the next few
years.
We have tried to provide complete documentation for all data available
through this site, although it is a daunting task. Start by reading an
Overview of how individual data sets are constructed.
More detailed documentation, including sources of the data, is organized
by country (follow the links in each section). You are welcome to download
and analyze any data posted here. However, before using these data in
any way, please read our short User Agreement.
Thank you!
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