Ontario Death Registrations by Municipality, 2024-2025 Preliminary Data

Preliminary death registration counts for 2024 and 2025, aggregated by the deceased's municipality of residence and released quarterly by the Government of Ontario. For privacy, only counts greater than 5 are disclosed, and data is collated approximately 90 days after each quarter ends. Final, official counts are published later in the Office of the Registrar General Annual Report.

Use Cases

• Tracking quarterly mortality trends based on preliminary registration data
• Analyzing geographic distribution of deaths based on municipality of residence
• Monitoring data completeness and reporting lags described for events near quarter-ends

Strengths

• Data is updated quarterly with cumulative totals
• Privacy-protected with suppression of counts 5 or lower
• Released under the OGL-CA-2.0 open license

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Preliminary data for 2024-2025 may not match final counts from other sources
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Government of Ontario | Gouvernement de l'Ontario

Collection Method

Death registrations collected by ServiceOntario from various sources under the Vital Statistics Act.

Time Range

2024 to 2025 (January to September), with data released by calendar quarter.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-02 12:47:57.494153; freshness should be verified

Geography

Ontario, Canada, aggregated by municipality of residence.