Global Burden of Disease 2013: Age-Sex Mortality for 240 Causes, 1990-2013

1990-2013 mortality data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. The dataset likely contains age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality estimates for 240 causes of death across global, regional, and national levels. It is a Faculty Opinions recommendation of a systematic analysis authored by Sundeep Salvi.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in cause-specific mortality by age and sex (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Modeling the global and regional burden of disease over time (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Comparing national-level mortality patterns for specific causes (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published on paperswithcode
• Covers a 24-year time range (1990-2013)
• Includes estimates for 240 distinct causes of death

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• License is listed as 'closed', which may restrict use

Provenance

Source

Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Collection Method

Systematic analysis

Time Range

1990-2013

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown; freshness unverified

Geography

Global, regional, and national