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This publication contains statistical tables showing the number of deaths by age, sex and grouped underlying cause for Canada, the provinces and territories. Also included are age-specific and age-standardized mortality rates by grouped underlying cause of death.
Underlying cause of death is classified to the Tenth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) from 2000 to the present. Underlying cause of death was classified to the Ninth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9) from 1979 to 1999.
This product replaces Mortality, summary list of causes, catalogue number 84F0209XPB (published for data years 1997 to 1999) and catalogue number 84F0209XIB (published for data year 1997).
This issue of the annual HTML/PDF publication contains tables for data year 2005 with the corresponding highlights.
Free access to the 2000 to 2005 data is provided through a special CANSIM interface. The CANSIM tables can be linked directly from three different locations in the HTML product:
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