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ICD version used to classify causes of death

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ICD version used to classify causes of death
A country is only included here if their data is a reported to the WHO Mortality Database and to do this they must record cause of death for at least 65% of deaths.
Source
WHO Mortality Database (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Last updated
July 29, 2024
Next expected update
July 2025
Date range
1950–2022
Unit
ICD version

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

Retrieved on
July 29, 2024
Retrieved from
https://www.who.int/data/data-collection-tools/who-mortality-database#:~:text=The%20WHO%20Mortality%20Database%20is,death%20as%20reported%20by%20countries
Citation
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WHO Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact (DDI), World Health Organization (2024)

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“Data Page: ICD version used to classify causes of death”, part of the following publication: Saloni Dattani, Fiona Spooner, Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser (2023) - “Causes of Death”. Data adapted from WHO Mortality Database. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/icd-code-version-used-to-classify-causes-of-death [online resource]
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WHO Mortality Database (2024) – processed by Our World in Data. “ICD version used to classify causes of death” [dataset]. WHO Mortality Database, “ICD Codes” [original data]. Retrieved December 14, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/icd-code-version-used-to-classify-causes-of-death