World mortality report 2007

The World Mortality Report 2007, prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, provides a comprehensive set of mortality estimates for the world’s countries and their aggregates, along with an inventory of the availability of primary data for the estimation of adult and child mortality at the national level. The objectives of the World Mortality Report 2007 are twofold. First, the results of the 2006 Revision of World Population Prospects are used to provide an overview of levels and trends of mortality for 195 countries and areas that had populations of 100,000 or higher in 2007. Estimates for selected mortality indicators are also provided for the world, each development group, and the major areas and regions of the world. The report provides a detailed analysis of the estimated levels and trends of mortality for selected aggregates and at the country level. The second objective of the World Mortality Report 2007 is to document the availability of information relevant to the estimation of child and adult mortality at the national level in order to set the basis for the continuing improvement of mortality estimation.
Chapter 1. Levels and trends of mortality -- Chapter 2. Data availability for the estimation of mortality -- Chapter 3. Ordering the World Mortality Report 2007 CD-ROM edition - datasets in Excel and PDF formats -- Chapter 4. References -- Annex table 1. Country profiles -- Annex table 2. Selected mortality indicators -- Annex table 3. Data inventory -- Annex table 4. Summary tables on data availibility.

xxx, 391 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-55).