Global, regional, and national mortality estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. The dataset likely contains age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality data for 240 causes of death. The work was authored by Martin Maiden at the University of Oxford.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in cause-specific mortality over time (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Compare age-sex specific mortality rates across regions (inferred from domain, verify after download)
- Validate or calibrate population health models (inferred from domain, verify after download)
Strengths
- Published on paperswithcode
- Covers 240 distinct causes of death
- Includes a 24-year time range (1990-2013)
Limitations
- Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- License is closed, restricting redistribution and commercial use
Provenance
- Source
- University of Oxford
- Time Range
- 1990-2013
- Geography
- Global, regional, and national