Underlying Data

The data for www.DeathRiskRankings.org are publicly available and easily accessible. The European mortality data are available from Eurostat and the U.S. data are available from CDC Wonder.

Several calculations were required in order to merge the Eurostat and the CDC data sets. Additional calculations were done in order to allow you to forecast a death based on a given age, and to provide averages for populations. In some cases, we sacrificed specificity and functionality in order to facilitate U.S. and European comparisons. For more information about when the data was obtained and how it was transformed, see calculations.

The U.S. data is broken down by race (white, black, and other), whereas the European data is not. It is possible to compare US groups by race with groups in European countries.