Vital Statistics – Death Database

1974 - 2023

Subjects

HealthLife expectancy and deaths

Overview

Summary

This is an administrative survey that collects demographic and medical (cause of death) information annually from all provincial and territorial vital statistics registries on all deaths in Canada.

Please note that additional documentation is available for this survey. Please contact your RDC analyst to request this documentation.

Available Cycles

Years Name
1974-2023 Vital Statistics – Death Database

Documentation

Publication Note

All publications (e.g. scientific articles, reports, dissertations, theses) and presentations based on a dataset available in the RDCs should include an acknowledgement of the support provided by granting councils (SSHRC, CIHR, CFI), Statistics Canada and host university. See a sample

Related Publications

Benny, Claire, Smith, Brendan T., Hyshka, Elaine, Senthilselvan, Ambikaipakan, Veugelers, Paul J., and Pabayo, Roman (2022).

Investigating the association between income inequality in youth and deaths of despair in Canada: a population-based cohort study from 2006 to 2019

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health , jech-2022-219630

Ripley, Susannah, Gao, Dong, Pollitt, Krystal J. Godri, Lakey, Pascale S. J., Shiraiwa, Manabu, Hatzopoulou, Marianne, and Weichenthal, Scott (2023).

Within-city spatial variations in long-term average outdoor oxidant gas concentrations and cardiovascular mortality: Effect modification by oxidative potential in the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort

Environmental Epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) , e257

Dardir, Mohamed, Berardi, Umberto, and Wilson, Jeffrey (2022).

Impact of Increased Urban Albedo on Heat-Related Health: The Case Study of the Greater Toronto Area

Deri Armstrong, Catherine and Devlin, Rose Anne (2022).

Dying at Home: A Privilege for Those with Time and Money

Canadian Public Policy , 81-98

Décarie, Y. and Michaud, PC. (2021).

Counting the Dead: COVID-19 and Mortality in Quebec and British Columbia During the First Wave

Canadian Studies in Population , 139-164

Peter Kitchen, Lisa Kaida, Noori Akhtar-Danesh, and Allison Williams (2021).

Unintentional injury deaths among youth in Ontario, Canada from 2000 to 2015: Rates are falling but there are caveats

The Canadian Geographer , 255-266

Michael Baker, Janet Currie, Boriana Miloucheva, Hannes Schwandt, and Josselin Thuilliez (2021).

Mortality Inequality: Updated Estimates for the U.S., Canada, and France

Fiscal Studies , 25-46

Mhd. Wasem Alsabbagh, Feng Chang, Martin Cooke, Susan J. Elliott, and Meixi Chen (2021).

National trends in population rates of opioid-related mortality, hospitalization and emergency department visits in Canada between 2000 and 2017. A population-based study

Addiction , 3482-3493

Alysha Roberts, Min Hu, and Mohammad Hajizadeh (2021).

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Resources

CRDCN-Statistics Canada Open Mic Data Series - Vital Statistics Database (2025)

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Vital Statistics Overview 2024 (2024)

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