Mortality by Cause Groups in Armenia, Colombia, 2019

Grupos de Causas de Defunción provides cause-of-death statistics aggregated by the Armenia Health Secretariat. The dataset includes total deaths broken down by gender and grouped cause categories. Data is current as of December 31, 2019, and is published by the Colombian open data portal.

Use Cases

• Analyze gender disparities in mortality using the Mujeres and Hombres columns.
• Rank leading causes of death by examining counts in the TOTAL column for each GRUPOS DE CAUSAS DE DEFUNCIÓN entry.
• Study the distribution of mortality across broad disease categories defined by the OPS CIE-10 6/67 list in the GRUPOS DE CAUSAS DE DEFUNCIÓN column.

Strengths

• Data is provided by an official government health authority (Secretaría de Salud de Armenia).
• Includes a standardized international cause-of-death classification (CIE-10 de OPS).
• Offers a gender-disaggregated view with Mujeres and Hombres columns.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Secretaría de Salud de Armenia, published via www.datos.gov.co.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official death registration records.

Time Range

Data with a cutoff date of December 31, 2019.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 19:01:32; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Armenia, Colombia.