Mortality Stats.

[swestrup]

Does anyone know where I could get raw mortality rate figures for North America (Canada and/or the US) for the last 50 years or more? I need them broken down by age (and gender, if possible). I went to look at Stats Canada, but I could only find the number up to 1975. That's not very useful for my purposes.

I pay taxes to get this info collected, so I certainly don't want to pay any money in order to see the results...

Comments

[ai731.livejournal.com]

The CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/) has stats for the US (MMRW http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/ is a particularly morbid read - did you know that Americans are still dying of Typhoid Feaver?) and the WHO (http://www.who.int/en/) has stats for every UN member nation - don't know how far back they go.

[swestrup]

Thanks, I'll check these sites out.

[unsane1.livejournal.com]

The UN has a ton of statistics, though I don't know if they have exactly what you want. At worst you could check their sources.

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/default.htm
http://webapps01.un.org/pubsCatalogue/

[unsane1.livejournal.com]

Not that you need it anymore, but I figured you might find the following site(s) highly useful:

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html
http://www.census.gov/main/www/access.html