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European mortality database (MDB)

Indicators: 851
Updated: 15 September 2025
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All causes of death and infectious diseases Cancer mortality Diseases of blood, endocrine, nervous systems, etc Diseases of circulatory and respiratory systems Diseases of digestive, musculosceletal systems, etc. Maternal and perinatal conditions Ill-defined causes External causes of mortality Population and ICD used
MDB

European mortality database allows age- and sex-specific analysis of mortality trends by broad disease-groups, as well as dis-aggregated to 67 specific causes of death. Data reach back to 1980. 
The data is taken from the WHO Global Mortality database, available at: http://www.who.int/healthinfo/mortality_data/en/

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All causes of death and infectious diseases

Cancer mortality

Diseases of blood, endocrine, nervous systems, etc

Diseases of circulatory and respiratory systems

Diseases of digestive, musculosceletal systems, etc.

Maternal and perinatal conditions

Ill-defined causes

External causes of mortality

Population and ICD used