claritystorm/cdc-wonder-mortality

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.