Mortality Causes in Colombia for 2020 by Age and Gender

Official determination of the circumstances causing human death, which can be recorded on a death certificate. The dataset includes columns for Age, Cause of Mortality, and Gender. It is hosted by www.datos.gov.co and was last updated on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Analyze age distribution of specific mortality causes using the Age and Causas de mortalidad columns.
• Compare mortality cause prevalence between genders using the Género and Causas de mortalidad columns.
• Identify leading causes of death across different age groups using the Age and Causas de mortalidad columns.

Strengths

• Data is officially sourced for death certification.
• Includes three key demographic and cause variables: Age, Causas de mortalidad, and Género.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats: CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co

Collection Method

Official death certificate records.

Time Range

2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 17:35:45; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia