The Human Mortality Database
Vladimir Shkolnikov, Director |
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research |
Magali Barbieri, Associate Director |
University
of California, Berkeley and INED, Paris |
John Wilmoth, Founding Director |
United Nations and formerly University
of California, Berkeley |
The Human Mortality Database (HMD) was created to provide detailed mortality and population data to researchers, students, journalists, policy analysts, and others interested in the history of human longevity. The project began as an outgrowth of earlier projects in the Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and at the
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany
(see
history).
It is the work of two teams of researchers in the USA and Germany (see
research teams),
with the help of financial backers and scientific collaborators from around the world (see
acknowledgements).
The Center on the Economics and Development of Aging (CEDA) French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) has also supported the further development of the database in recent years.
We seek to provide open, international access to these data. At present the database contains detailed population and mortality data for the following 39 countries or areas:
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For more information, please begin by reading an
overview
of the database.
If you have comments or questions, or trouble gaining access to the data, please write to us
(hmd@mortality.org).
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