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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · 6d

📢 #episky #mortality #opendata
📈 #Netherlands #HMD series updated through 2023

🔓 Data is freely available at mortality.org

In 2023, the sex gap in #lifeexpectancy at birth remained nearly stable compared to 2022.

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · 6d

The 7️⃣th #HMD symposium is only one week away

🧐 Check out the program 👇
mortality.org/File/GetDocument/Public/HMD_7th_Symposium/Programme_JE%20HMD_2025.pdf

⏲️📅 October 9-10, 2025
🌍📍 @ined-english.bsky.social

#episky #mortality #longevity #HMDsymposium2025

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · 6d

🗣️ #episky #mortality
New update of the weekly death series #STMF includes revised and updated #data for 19 countries

Data ➡️ mortality.org/Data/STMF

Country-specific details in the 📰 Metadata
mortality.org/File/GetDocument/Public/STMF/DOC/STMFmetadata.pdf

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · 7d

✨ New addition: HMD summary indicators ✨

To provide easy access to key period #mortality indicators, we now provide the following Excel tables for all #HMD countries:
🔹 Infant Mortality
🔸 Survival to age 65
🔹 Life Expectancy
🔸 Population

Download 🔗 mortality.org

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · 7d

We are looking forward to the #HMD symposium next week 🎉

INED (in english) @ined-english.bsky.social · 9d

| AGENDA | Growing divergences in #longevity in high-income populations

7th Human Mortality Database Symposium

9th and 10th October

🔎 More information: www.ined.fr/fr/actualite...

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · 7d

📢 #episky #mortality
📈 #Norway #HMD series updated through 2024

Full life tables & data ➡️ mortality.org

The 2024 #lifeexpectancy estimate at birth for men in Norway is 81.59, a high that has been estimated previously for men in 2021.

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · 8d

✨ DOIs available for the core HMD✨

By country zipped data files now have DOIs 🗂️📑
Find them on the Zipped Data Files page:
🔹 By country / All HMD countries – current dataset
🔹 Previous versions – archived datasets

🔎➡️ mortality.org/Data/ZippedDataFiles

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · 8d

Exiting week of updates for the #HMD 🎉

What´s New❓

🔵 DOIs for the core HMD
🟠 HMD summary indicators
🟡 #STMF update
🟢 Country updates for Norway, Latvia and the Netherlands

✨ Stay tuned to learn more...

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · 27d

📢 #episky #mortality #causesofdeath
📈 #US cause-specific data series #HCD@HMD was revised and updated through 2023

🔗Access the data at ⬇️
mortality.org/Country/HCDCountry?cntr=USA

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · Sep 1

📢 #episky #mortality

New version of the #STMF data series with new and updated data for 31 countries available at mortality.org/Data/STMF

Explore the data via the excess visualization toolkit 👇
mpidr.shinyapps.io/stmortality/

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · Aug 7

What´s important to know about SDRs❓

🟠Available by sex and for 1-, 5-, and 10-year periods
🔵Only based on abridged period #lifetable mortality rates
🟡Data downloads into R are compatible with the HMDHFDplus package

More in the Methods Protocol ⬇️
mortality.org/File/GetDocu...

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · Aug 7

📈 SDRs by sex and year are now available 📉
➡️ mortality.org

We are excited to announce that the #HMD has been updated to include period age-standardized #DeathRates (SDR) by sex and year, based on the two European Population Standards, 1976 & 2013

🔎 Learn more👇🧵

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · Aug 7

📣 Check out the Canadian Mortality Database (CHMD)
🔗 www.bdlc.umontreal.ca

🔎 Detailed #mortality data for Canada, its provinces and territories from 1921-2023

Démographie et sciences de la population UdeM @demo-udem.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚀📈 Mise à jour de la Base de données sur la longévité canadienne, un produit @demo-udem.bsky.social, avec l'équipe @hmdatabase.bsky.social et le @mpidr.bsky.social‬ ! Les données 1921-2023 des provinces et territoires 🇨🇦 sont maintenant disponibles #opendata #mortality

🔗 www.bdlc.umontreal.ca

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · Jul 29

📢 #episky #mortality
Weekly death series #STMF revised and updated for 17 countries ☑️

#opendata ➡️ mortality.org/Data/STMF

Country-specific details in the 📰 metadata mortality.org/File/GetDocument/Public/STMF/DOC/STMFmetadata.pdf

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · Jul 28

📢 #episky #mortality
📈 #France #HMD series (Total & Civilian) was updated through 2023

Full life tables & data estimates 👉 mortality.org

#lifeexpectancy in France has fully recovered from the COVID crisis in 2023

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · Jul 28

📢 #episky #mortality #causesofdeath

The cause-specific data series HCD@HMD was revised for #France for the years 2017–2022 using data from the National Health Data System #SNDS, which extends the open age interval from 85+ to 100+

Data ⬇️
mortality.org/Country/HCDCountry?cntr=FRATNP

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · Jun 30

#episky #mortality
📢 New version of the #STMF data series available

🔵 New data for 22 countries
🟠 Data for Taiwan until w52 of 2024

Explore the data via the excess visualization toolkit 👇
mpidr.shinyapps.io/stmortality

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · Jun 11

#episky #mortality
📣 #Sweden #HMD series updated through 2024

🔓 Data is freely available at mortality.org

In 2024, the gap between #lifeexpectancy for men at birth and women at birth continues to narrow in Sweden.

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · Jun 11

#episky #mortality
📈 #Finland #HMD series updated through 2024

Full life tables & data ➡️ mortality.org

In 2024 Finnish #lifeexpectancy has surpassed its pre-Covid levels (e0 = 82.3), and is close to the 2024 forecast based on the 2015-2019 linear trend.

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · Jun 6

📢 #HMD users #episky #mortality,
Data zipped by indicators are now organized within a single file per statistic, as compared to the previous multiple country-specific files for each statistic
➡️ mortality.org/Data/ZippedDataFiles

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · Jun 5

📣 #episky #mortality
📈 #US #HMD series was updated through 2023 with newly released data

Data ➡️ mortality.org

US life expectancy at birth in 2023 still half a year behind 2019

Details in the 📰 Background and documentation mortality.org/File/GetDocument/hmd.v6/USA/Public/InputDB/USAcom.pdf

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · May 28

📢 #episky #mortality

STMF data series revised & updated ☑️
#Opendata ➡️ mortality.org/Data/STMF

🔵 New data for 31 countries
🟠 Full data for 2024 for 34 countries
🟡 All country-specific details in the Metadata

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · May 20

It is with deep sadness that we learned about the death of our dear colleague and friend, Ward Kingkade (US Census Bureau), who passed away on May 13, 2025. Ward was a great demographer who made a huge contribution to HMD & HFD database projects. We will miss him a lot. 🕯️

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · May 20

📢 #episky #mortality #lifeexpectancy
📈 #Canada #HMD series updated through 2023

Full life tables & #opendata ➡️ mortality.org

Life expectancy experienced an increase for both men and women at birth, 65, and 80 for the first time in 4 years.

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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · May 16

🔴 Background and documentation: Japan,
Moldova, Romania
🟡 Recalculated SDRs for all countries using the
updated European Standard Population, which
incorporates Gompertz distribution for the oldest
age groups, per HMD methodology

🧵(3/3)

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