{"url":"/dataset/world-mortality-dataset","name":"World Mortality Dataset","full_name":null,"description_markdown":"The **World Mortality Dataset** contains weekly, monthly, or quarterly all-cause mortality data from 103 countries and territories. It contains country-level data on all-cause mortality in 2015–2021 collected from various sources.\r\n\r\nSource: [Tracking excess mortality across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic with the World Mortality Dataset](https://elifesciences.org/articles/69336)\r\n\r\nImage source: [https://github.com/akarlinsky/world_mortality](https://github.com/akarlinsky/world_mortality)","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://github.com/akarlinsky/world_mortality","introduced_date":"2021-06-30","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":"/paper/tracking-excess-mortality-across-countries","title":"Tracking excess mortality across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic with the World Mortality Dataset","first_author":"Ariel Karlinsky","url":null},"license":{"name":"MIT License","url":"https://github.com/akarlinsky/world_mortality/blob/main/LICENSE"},"modalities":[],"tasks":[],"languages":[],"variants":["World Mortality Dataset"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":4,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}