The Developing Countries Mortality Database (DCMD)

The DCMD provides life tables for developing countries. These life tables are based on empirical estimates of child, adult, and old-age mortality, and are calculated using the three-input-parameter model life table. Child and adult mortality are estimated by UNICEF (www.childmortality.org) and IHME (www.healthdata.org), respectively. Data on old-age mortality are estimated using the DCMD methods.

Director: Hong Mi (spsswork@163.com), the Laboratory for Population Big Data & Policy Simulation, the Institute for Population and Development Studies (www.ipds.zju.edu.cn) Zhejiang University (www.zju.edu.cn)

The DCMD thanks for the academic advice provided by Nan Li (li32@un.org) and Patrick Gerland (gerland@un.org), United Nations Population Division

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