International Completeness of Death Registration

This repository contains inputs and outputs of the paper: International completeness of death registration, which contains the most up to date estimates of the completeness of death registration in 193 countries around the world.

If you use this data, please cite it as: Karlinsky 2024, International completeness of death registration, Demographic Research https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2024.50.38

Contributions and suggestions of information and data are welcome and will be credited.

Contents

death_reg_final is a csv file in easy to use machine-readable, longitudinal format, from which all the analyses in International Completeness of Death Registration can be reproduced. The variables in the file are:

• country_name: Name of the country.
• year: Year, ranges from 2015 to 2019.
• reg_deaths: The number of deaths registered in the vital registration system for the country-year. NA denotes no registered deaths data was obtained.
• expected_wpp: The number of deaths expected to occur for the country-year from World Population Prospects 2022.
• expected_gbd: The number of deaths expected to occur for the country-year from Global Burden of Disease 2019.
• expected_ghe: The number of deaths expected to occur for the country-year from Global Health Estimates 2019.
• expected_deaths: The mean of expected_wpp, expected_gbd and expected_ghe.
• death_comp: The estimated completeness rate, ranges from 0 to 100%. Derived as reg_deaths divided by expected_deaths. See paper for details.
• source: Whether the source is WMD (World Mortality Dataset) or other. See References in paper for detailed sources for countries not from WMD.
• expected_confidence_score: Ratio between min to max death completeness between WPP/GBD/GHE. from 0 (lowest) to 100% (highest confidence) (conditional on having at least 2 sources for expected_deaths).