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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  • 61. Infant mortality rates of Indigenous populations in Canada
    Table: 17-10-0161-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Estimates of infant mortality rates are available at the national level (by sex) and based on residence within or outside of a census metropolitan area (CMA). Estimates are available for the whole country for the periods 2004-2006 and 2014-2016 and for Canada excluding Ontario for the periods 1994-1996, 2004-2006 and 2014-2016.
    Release date: 2025-06-03
  • 62. Health of Canadians
    Table: 82-570-X
    Geography: Province or territory
    Description: The Health of Canadians report brings together important health data, both for the population overall and for specific groups, to provide a comprehensive portrait of population health and to shed light on health disparities. It includes key statistics on population health such as health outcomes (e.g., chronic conditions), health behaviours (e.g., exercise, nutrition), access to health care (e.g., unmet health care needs) and determinants of health (e.g., age, income).

    The Health of Canadians report is meant to be used by our federal, provincial and territorial partners, as well as health professionals, researchers, and policymakers across the country to inform policies and plans, leading to better, more equitable health outcomes for all Canadians.
    Release date: 2025-03-05
  • 63. Deaths and mortality rate (age standardization using 2011 population), by selected grouped causes, inactive Archived
    Table: 13-10-0800-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Number of deaths, crude mortality rates and age standardized mortality rates (based on 2011 population) for selected grouped causes, by sex, 2000 to most recent year.
    Release date: 2025-02-19
  • 64. Age-standardized mortality rate by leading cause of death and sex, inactive Archived
    Table: 13-10-0800-02
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Number of deaths, crude mortality rates and age standardized mortality rates (based on 2011 population) for selected grouped causes, by sex. Data are available beginning from 2000.
    Release date: 2025-02-19
  • 65. Leading causes of death, total population (age standardization using 2011 population), inactive Archived
    Table: 13-10-0801-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Rank, number of deaths, percentage of deaths and age standardized mortality rates (based on 2011 population) for leading causes of death, by sex, 2000 to most recent year.
    Release date: 2025-02-19
  • 66. Provisional deaths and excess mortality in Canada dashboard Archived
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2021028
    Description: The dashboard presents data that are relevant for monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 on mortality in Canada. It includes the latest weekly death data, historical weekly death data back to 2014, updated adjusted (i.e. the estimated number of weekly deaths) and expected weekly death counts produced for the 2020 reference year from the Canadian Vital Statistics: Death database (CVS:D). The CVS:D is an administrative survey that collects demographic and medical (cause of death) information from all provincial and territorial vital statistics registries on all deaths in Canada. With this tool, data users can explore current and historical weekly trends of deaths for each province and territory. Key variables such as age group and sex are also presented in interactive charts. The interactive tool allows users to examine excess deaths by comparing the trend in weekly deaths in 2020 to the trends in weekly deaths in previous years.
    Release date: 2023-12-14
  • 67. Provisional weekly estimates of the number of deaths, expected number of deaths and excess mortality, inactive Archived
    Table: 13-10-0784-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Weekly
    Description: Provisional estimates of excess mortality, adjusted numbers of deaths, and expected numbers of deaths to monitor weekly death trends in Canada. Given the delays in receiving the data from the provincial and territorial vital statistics offices, death data have been adjusted to account for undercoverage. Data in this table will be available by province and territory.
    Release date: 2023-12-14
  • 68. Provisional weekly estimates of the number of deaths, expected number of deaths and excess mortality, by age group and sex, inactive Archived
    Table: 13-10-0792-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Weekly
    Description: Provisional estimates of excess mortality, adjusted numbers of deaths, and expected numbers of deaths to monitor weekly death trends, by age group and sex, in Canada. Given the delays in receiving the data from the provincial and territorial vital statistics offices, death data have been adjusted to account for undercoverage. Data in this table will be available by province and territory.
    Release date: 2023-12-14
  • 69. Five-year mortality, by income quintile and sex
    Table: 13-10-0759-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: All-cause age standardized mortality rates per 100,000 person years at risk from 5 years of follow-up from the Census of Population by household income quintile and sex for the household population aged 25 years or older for Canada and provinces.
    Release date: 2023-11-23
  • 70. Five-year mortality by educational attainment and sex
    Table: 13-10-0760-01
    Geography: Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: All-cause age standardized mortality rates per 100,000 person years at risk from 5 years of follow-up from the Census of Population by educational attainment and sex for the household population aged 25 years or older for Canada, provinces, and the territories combined.
    Release date: 2023-11-23
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Analysis (86) (30 to 40 of 86 results)

  • 31. Trends in paediatric cancer survival in Canada, 1992 to 2017 Archived
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202100200001
    Description: This study describes survival, improvement in survival over time and conditional survival for paediatric cancer patients in Canada.
    Release date: 2021-02-17
  • 32. Snowmobile fatalities in Canada, 2013 to 2019 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2021002
    Description: This is an infographic about snowmobiling deaths. The results shown are based on data from the Canadian Coroner and Medical Examiner Database and the Canadian Vital Statistics: Death Database.
    Release date: 2021-01-22
  • 33. COVID-19 death comorbidities in Canada Archived
    Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202000100087
    Description:

    Using the latest data from the Vital Statistics - Death Database, this article presents information about the most common comorbid conditions in COVID-19 deaths, as well as the extent to which these conditions differ by age groups. Comorbidities are defined as chronic and acute conditions, diseases, disorders, and complications appearing on the medical certificate of cause of death where COVID-19 was involved in the death.

    Release date: 2020-11-16
  • 34. COVID-19 mortality rates in Canada’s ethno-cultural neighbourhoods Archived
    Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202000100079
    Description:

    This article examines the differences in COVID-19 related mortality rates across different ethno-cultural neighbourhoods in Canada. The differences in age-standardized mortality rates by proportion of population groups designated as visible minorities are compared for Canada and selected provinces and census metropolitan areas to understand whether or not communities with higher proportion of population designated as visible minorities are reporting higher COVID-19 related mortality rates.

    Release date: 2020-10-28
  • 35. Associations between the receipt of inpatient palliative care and acute care outcomes: A retrospective study Archived
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202001000001
    Description: The present study examines the receipt of inpatient palliative care and its association with location of death, as well as with admission to intensive care units and use of alternate level of care beds in hospital in the last 30 days of life.
    Release date: 2020-10-21
  • 36. Excess mortality in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic Archived
    Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202000100076
    Description:

    COVID-19 has had and continues to have a clear impact on communities and families across the country. Many have lost family members and friends to the pandemic. In terms of lives lost, the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic should account for both the direct and indirect effects of the virus. Excess mortality, which occurs when there are more deaths during a period of time than what would be typical for that period, is one key measure that accounts for these effects. Statistics Canada used provisional data on deaths in Canada to produce provisional death estimates, which have been adjusted to account for the incomplete nature of the data due to reporting delays. These are in turn used with a measure of the number of deaths that would be expected to be observed were there no pandemic to produce an estimate of excess mortality. The provincial and territorial results are discussed.

    Release date: 2020-08-28
  • 37. Health Indicators
    Journals and periodicals: 82-221-X
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Over 80 indicators measure the health of the Canadian population and the effectiveness of the health care system. Designed to provide comparable information at the health region and provincial/territorial levels, these data are produced from a wide range of the most recently available sources.

    This Internet publication is produced by Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information.

    Release date: 2020-07-30
  • 38. Social isolation and mortality among Canadian seniors Archived
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202000300003
    Description: This study examines an objective and a subjective measure of social isolation and their associations with mortality for Canadian seniors aged 65 or older.
    Release date: 2020-06-17
  • 39. Life tables 2016/2018 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202002820365
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2020-01-28
  • 40. Health Reports: Life expectancy differs by education and income levels Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202001522784
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2020-01-15
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