Vital Statistics - Death Database

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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.
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  • 1. Provisional Deaths in Canada Dashboard
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024004
    Description: This dashboard presents data that are relevant for monitoring mortality in Canada. The interactive visualization within the dashboard features insights on weekly death trends from the Canadian Vital Statistics - Death (CVSD) database.
    Release date: 2026-07-09
  • 2. Provisional weekly death counts, by age group and sex
    Table: 13-10-0768-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Weekly
    Description: This table provides Canadians and researchers with provisional data to monitor weekly death trends by age and sex in Canada. Given the delays in receiving the data from the provincial and territorial vital statistics offices, these data are considered provisional. Data in this table will be available by province and territory.
    Release date: 2026-07-09
  • 3. Previous releases and revisions to provisional weekly death counts
    Table: 13-10-0783-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Weekly
    Description:

    This table provides Canadians and researchers with provisional data to monitor weekly death trends in Canada. Given the delays in receiving the data from the provincial and territorial vital statistics offices, these data are considered provisional. Data in this table will be available by province and territory.

    Release date: 2026-07-09
  • 4. Provisional weekly death counts, by selected grouped causes of death
    Table: 13-10-0810-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Weekly
    Description:

    This table provides Canadians and researchers with provisional data to monitor weekly death trends by selected grouped causes of death in Canada. Given the delays in receiving the data from the provincial and territorial vital statistics offices, these data are considered provisional. Data in this table will be available by province and territory.

    Release date: 2026-07-09
  • 5. Provisional weekly age-standardized mortality rates, by sex
    Table: 13-10-0879-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Weekly
    Description: The table displays weekly age standardized mortality rates for every province in Canada (excluding territories), by sex, since 2019. The standardization is done using the 2011 Canadian population.
    Release date: 2026-07-09
  • 6. Estimates of the components of natural increase, quarterly
    Table: 17-10-0059-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Quarterly
    Description: Components of natural increase, quarterly: births and deaths.
    Release date: 2026-06-17
  • 7. Geographic variation in female breast cancer incidence and mortality in Canada
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202600500001
    Description: Previous research has found variability in cancer incidence and cancer-related outcomes according to place of residence. This study examined geographic variability in the incidence and mortality of breast cancer among females in Canada, using data from the 2021 Canadian Cancer Registry (breast cancer incidence) and the Canadian Vital Statistics – Death database (breast cancer mortality). Age-standardized incidence rates (ASIRs) and age-standardized mortality rates (ASMRs) per 100,000 females per year and their rate ratios were calculated, as well as age group-specific and age-standardized stage-specific incidence rates, and examined across provinces and territories, community sizes, and peer groups (i.e., clusters of health regions with similar socioeconomic and demographic characteristics).
    Release date: 2026-05-20
  • 8. Health Fact Sheets
    Journals and periodicals: 82-625-X
    Geography: Canada
    Description: Health fact sheets will include short, focused, single-theme analysis documents. Over the course of the series, analysis will include topics on: Health conditions, lifestyle, well-being, disability, prevention and detection of disease, deaths, pregnancy and birth, health care services and environmental factors.
    Release date: 2026-05-20
  • 9. Socioeconomic characteristics of Indigenous adults reconvicted after release from provincial custody, 2016/2017
    Articles and reports: 85-002-X202600100008
    Description: This Juristat article explores the relationship between socioeconomic characteristics and reconvictions among Indigenous adults released from full-time provincial custody in 2016/2017, in the provinces of Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. The study examines pre-release socioeconomic characteristics, including education, employment, income, family composition, emergency healthcare, geographic location, and neighbourhood characteristics, to identify possible links between these factors and the likelihood of reconviction for a crime.
    Release date: 2026-05-14
  • 10. Socioeconomic characteristics and reconviction patterns of Indigenous adults released from provincial custody 2016/2017
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202613440427
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2026-05-14
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  • 51. Deaths, by cause, Chapter X: Diseases of the respiratory system (J00 to J99)
    Table: 13-10-0782-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Number of deaths caused by diseases of the respiratory system, by age group and sex, 2000 to most recent year.
    Release date: 2026-01-13
  • 52. Life expectancy and other elements of the complete life table, single-year estimates, Canada, all provinces except Prince Edward Island
    Table: 13-10-0837-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: This table contains mortality indicators by sex for Canada and all provinces except Prince Edward Island. These indicators are derived from the single-year complete life tables. Mortality indicators derived from three-year life tables are also available (table 13-10-0114). For Prince Edward Island, Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, the population sizes are too small to allow the calculation of single-years life tables with sufficient accuracy, but mortality indicators derived from three-year abridged life tables are available (table 13-10-0140).
    Release date: 2026-01-13
  • 53. Deaths and mortality rate (age standardization using 2021 population), by selected grouped causes
    Table: 13-10-0932-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Number of deaths, crude mortality rates and age standardized mortality rates (based on 2021 estimated population) for selected grouped causes, by sex, 2000 to most recent year.
    Release date: 2026-01-13
  • 54. Leading causes of death, total population (age standardization using 2021 population)
    Table: 13-10-0933-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Rank, number of deaths, percentage of deaths and age standardized mortality rates (based on 2021 estimated population) for leading causes of death, by sex, 2000 to most recent year.
    Release date: 2026-01-13
  • 55. Health-adjusted life expectancy, by sex and income quintile
    Table: 13-10-0971-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE), by sex, age group, income quintile and geography, annual for the provinces and two-year average for the territories. Estimates are expressed in years and represent the average number of years a person could expect to live in good health based on current health status and mortality conditions.
    Release date: 2026-01-09
  • 56. Premature and potentially avoidable mortality, Canada, provinces and territories
    Table: 13-10-0923-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Number of premature and potentially avoidable deaths and premature and potentially avoidable age-standardized mortality rate, by sex, on an annual basis. Premature deaths are those of individuals who are younger than age 75. Avoidable mortality is defined as "untimely deaths that should not occur in the presence of timely and effective health care, including prevention".
    Release date: 2025-11-28
  • 57. Premature and potentially avoidable mortality, three-year period, Canada, provinces, territories, health regions (2023 boundaries) and peer groups
    Table: 13-10-0931-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Health region, Local health integration network, Peer group
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Number of premature and potentially avoidable deaths and premature and potentially avoidable age-standardized mortality rate, by sex, on an annual basis. Premature deaths are those of individuals who are younger than age 75. Avoidable mortality is defined as "untimely deaths that should not occur in the presence of timely and effective health care, including prevention".
    Release date: 2025-11-28
  • 58. Estimates of deaths, by age and gender, annual
    Table: 17-10-0006-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Estimated annual number of deaths by 5-year age groups and gender for Canada, provinces and territories.
    Release date: 2025-09-24
  • 59. Estimates of the components of demographic growth, annual
    Table: 17-10-0008-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Components of population growth, annual: births, deaths, immigrants, emigrants, returning emigrants, net temporary emigrants, net interprovincial migration, net non-permanent residents, residual deviation.
    Release date: 2025-09-24
  • 60. Life expectancy at birth of Indigenous populations in Canada
    Table: 17-10-0160-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Estimates of life expectancy at birth are provided at the national level (by sex), at the province or regional level, and based on residence within or outside of a census metropolitan area (CMA) for a series of three five-year reference periods beginning in 2006-2011.
    Release date: 2025-06-03
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  • 21. Study: COVID-19 mortality by racialized groups and income 2020 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202224235003
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2022-08-30
  • 22. Risk of non-medical drug overdose following prescription of opioids post-injury: A retrospective cohort study
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202200700001
    Description: There has been increasing scrutiny of opioid prescribing following injury given concerns that prescribed opioids may contribute to addiction and/or overdose. This study aimed to better understand the relationship between injury, opioids prescribed pre- and post-injury, and non-medical drug poisoning. Focusing on working age (15-65 years old) residents of the Fraser Health region, this study used a linked administrative dataset to better understand the relationships between injury, whether the injury was work-related or sustained outside of the workplace, pain management medication in the form of opioid and opioid agonist therapy prescriptions before and after injury, and potential non-medical drug poisoning.
    Release date: 2022-07-20
  • 23. Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 3, Good Health and Well-being
    Articles and reports: 11-637-X202200100003
    Description:

    As the third goal outlined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Canada and other UN member states have committed to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages by 2030. This 2022 infographic provides an overview of indicators underlying the third Sustainable Development Goal in support of Good Health and Well-being, and the statistics and data sources used to monitor and report on this goal in Canada.

    Release date: 2022-06-23
  • 24. Inequalities in COVID-19 mortality rates by neighbourhood types in Canada Archived
    Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202200100006
    Description:

    This article explores inequalities in age-standardized COVID-19 mortality rates by six neighbourhood types in Canada. A new geographic classification tool called the Canadian Social Environment Typology (CanSET) is used to understand variations in age-standardized COVID-19 mortality rates by socioeconomic, demographic and ethnocultural characteristics of neighbourhoods in Canada.

    Release date: 2022-05-09
  • 25. Health and well-being of women and Girls living in communities at varying levels of remoteness 2015 to 2018 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202208033805
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2022-03-21
  • 26. Statistical Portrait of Women and Girls by the Relative Remoteness of their Communities, Series 3: Health and Well-being
    Articles and reports: 45-20-00022022002
    Description:

    Using the 2015/2016 and 2017/2018 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS), 2015-2018 Canadian Vital Death Statistics Database (CVSD) and the updated Remoteness Index Classification, this paper looks at the health and well-being of women and girls by the relative remoteness of their communities.

    Release date: 2022-03-21
  • 27. Short-term cancer prevalence in Canada, 2018
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202200300002
    Description:

    This study presents detailed tumour-based cancer prevalence estimates in Canada by sex, age group, cancer type and prevalence duration as of January 1, 2018.

    Release date: 2022-03-16
  • 28. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Canadian seniors
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X202100100008
    Description:

    This article brings together research on the health, social and financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Canadian seniors aged 65 years and older. The results discussed are based on data from the Canadian Vital Statistics Death Database, Canadian Community Health Survey, Labour Force Survey, Canadian Perspectives Survey Series, and crowdsourcing data.

    Release date: 2021-10-18
  • 29. Do cancer incidence and mortality rates differ among ethnicities in Canada?
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202100800001
    Description:

    Cancer incidence rates have been shown to vary by ethnicity, and the increasing awareness of and interest in reporting ethnic health inequalities have been growing internationally. The objective of this study was to assess cancer incidence and mortality rates by ethnicity in Canada. The study used the 2006 Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort, linked to the Canadian Cancer Registry and the Canadian Vital Statistics-Death Database, to determine cancer cases and mortality from 2006 to 2016. Ethnicity was categorized as non-Indigenous North American (NINA); European; Caribbean; Latin, Central and South American (LCSA); African; East Asian; South Asian; and West Central Asian and Middle Eastern.

    Release date: 2021-08-18
  • 30. Association of frailty and pre-frailty with increased risk of mortality among older Canadians Archived
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202100400002
    Description:

    This study estimates the prevalence of frailty and pre-frailty among adults aged 65 or older in Canada, and examines associations with mortality-all-cause and cause-specific (i.e., neoplasms, and diseases of the circulatory and respiratory systems)-over a follow-up period of three to five years.

    Release date: 2021-04-21
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