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A dataset containing number of deaths, population at risk and ages for residents of Queensland, Australia from 1979 to 2020

Usage

qld_mortality

Format

A data.frame containing the following fields:

year

integer, year of records

age

integer, age at death, in years

sex

factor differentiating the sexes

deaths

integer, number of deaths recorded

population

numeric population recorded at 30 June each year

Source

Australian Human Mortality Database

Details

The age group 100 also includes people who died aged older than 100. The data come from the Australian Human Mortality Database (https://aushd.org).