NCHS - Death Rates and Life Expectancy at Birth - US | CDC

**Overview**

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides free and open access to various health related data. This dataset of U.S. mortality trends since 1900 up to 2015 highlights the differences in age-adjusted death rates and life expectancy at birth by race and sex.

**Product Details**

Includes the following tables:

- **stat_lnd.lnd_usa_life_expectancy_yearly_cdc**
- **Update frequency:** weekly
- **Source:** NCHS
- **Description:** This dataset of U.S. mortality trends since 1900 highlights the differences in age-adjusted death rates and life expectancy at birth by race and sex.

**Data Sources**

The data in this product comes from **NCHS**.

Per the CDC, this dataset of U.S. mortality trends since 1900 highlights the differences in age-adjusted death rates and life expectancy at birth by race and sex.

Age-adjusted death rates (deaths per 100,000) after 1998 are calculated based on the 2000 U.S. standard population. Populations used for computing death rates for 2011–2017 are postcensal estimates based on the 2010 census, estimated as of July 1, 2010. Rates for census years are based on populations enumerated in the corresponding censuses. Rates for noncensus years between 2000 and 2010 are revised using updated intercensal population estimates and may differ from rates previously published. Data on age-adjusted death rates prior to 1999 are taken from historical data (see References below).

Life expectancy data are available up to 2017. Due to changes in categories of race used in publications, data are not available for the black population consistently before 1968, and not at all before 1960. More information on historical data on age-adjusted death rates is available at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/mortality/hist293.htm.

National Center for Health Statistics. NCHS - Death rates and life expectancy at birth. Available from https://data.cdc.gov/d/w9j2-ggv5.

- **Source Homepage:** [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention](https://www.cdc.gov/)
- **Source Data:** [CDC | NCHS - Death rates and life expectancy at birth](https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/NCHS-Death-rates-and-life-expectancy-at-birth/w9j2-ggv5)
- **License:** [Public Domain US Government](https://www.usa.gov/government-works)
- **Frequency:** irregular