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license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
  - tabular-regression
  - tabular-classification
tags:
  - healthcare
  - mortality
  - public-health
  - epidemiology
  - county-level
  - united-states
pretty_name: CDC WONDER Compressed Mortality 1999-2016
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K

CDC WONDER Compressed Mortality 1999-2016

18 years of county-level mortality data from CDC WONDER Compressed Mortality File (1999-2016). 55,000+ county x year records covering 3,100+ counties across all 50 US states and DC. Includes deaths, population, crude death rates, mortality tiers (quintile-based), and computed Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL).

Records Coverage License Updated
55K+ county x year 18 years, 3,100+ counties CC-BY-4.0 Annual

Quick Start

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("hf://datasets/claritystorm/cdc-wonder-mortality/sample_1000.csv")
print(df.head())

Schema

Column Type Description
record_id int Unique record identifier
county_fips str 5-digit county FIPS code
state_fips str 2-digit state FIPS code
county_name str County name and state
state_name str Full state name
year int Year (1999-2016)
deaths int Number of deaths
is_suppressed bool True if deaths < 10 (CDC suppression)
population int County population for that year
crude_rate float Deaths per 100,000 population
mortality_tier str Very Low / Low / Moderate / High / Very High
years_potential_life_lost float YPLL before age 75

Use Cases

  • Public health surveillance -- county-level mortality trends across 18 years
  • Health equity research -- geographic disparities in death rates by county and state
  • Epidemiological modeling -- population-adjusted mortality rates with confidence intervals
  • Policy analysis -- track mortality outcomes relative to county characteristics over time
  • ML/AI training -- pre-cleaned, analysis-ready tabular data for predictive modeling

Get the Full Dataset

Tier Price Includes
Sample Free 1,000 rows (this repo)
Complete $129 Full dataset, CSV + Parquet, commercial license
Annual $249/yr Complete + annual updates

Purchase at claritystorm.com/datasets/cdc-wonder-mortality

Source

CDC WONDER Compressed Mortality File, 1999-2016. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. All source data is US federal government work in the public domain (17 U.S.C. 105).

Processed and enriched by ClarityStorm Data.