Research Areas
Archive
- Human Mortality Database (HMD)
Death rates and life tables calculated for 41 regions, including the input data (death counts from vital statistics, census counts, birth counts and population estimates). - Human Life-Table Database (HLD)
Population life tables from various countries, mostly published by national statistical offices; as well as non-official life tables produced by researchers. - Human Fertility Database (HFD)
Detailed, high-quality and internationally comparable data on cohort and period fertility by age of mother and birth order. Short-Term Fertility Fluctuations (STFF) data series, providing up-to-date data on monthly births. - Human Fertility Collection (HFC)
The HFC has been designed to supplement the Human Fertility Database and to incorporate a greater variety of international fertility data that are valuable for fertility research but do not meet high quality standards of the HFD. - The Human Cause-of-Death Database
Time series of cause-specific mortality for 16 countries, comparable in time and across countries due to a common classification of causes of death, to which data from original vital statistics for each country are reassigned. - COVerAGE-DB
A global database of COVID-19 cases and deaths in harmonized 5 and 10-year age groups. Both national and subnational data. - Comparative Family Policy Database
Family allowances and parental leave regulations for 22 OECD countries. - Demography of Ageing across the Tree of Life Database (DATLife)
A curated data source for the comparative analysis of mortality and fertility across animals. In this context, “curated” means that the quality of information is assessed and recorded in the database. - Compadre Database
The COMPADRE database holds demographic data on reproduction, survival and growth for 600 plant species. - Longevity Records: Life Spans of Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Fish
Online book and data tables containing the highest documented ages for over 3,000 vertebrate species/subspecies. - Kannisto-Thatcher Database on Old Age Mortality
Data on death counts and population counts classified by sex, age, year of birth and calendar year for more than 30 countries. - Rostock Archive of Historical Vital Statistics Micro Data (RAPHIS)
Micro Data from historical censuses, church registers, and burial records of the city of Rostock in 1800 to 1905.
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