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The mortality data set contains information about the mortality rate across diseases and by countries from 1990 to 2019.

Usage

mortality

Format

A data frame with 128,520 rows and 6 variables.

country

Country name

code

Country code (Alpha-3 code)

continent

Continent of each country

year

Year

disease

Disease name

mortality_rate

Mortality rate in percentage

Source

This dataset is from the following; Our world in Data https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death and https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lukes/ISO-3166-Countries-with-Regional-Codes/master/all/all.csv. This dataset only includes causes of death related to disease information. An entity such as continents and income levels from the original dataset is removed.