United States Mortality Rates by Causes of Death and Life Expectancy by County, Race, and Ethnicity 2000-2019

Mortality rate estimates were produced at the county level in the United States, for 19 causes of death and by racial/ethnic group, for each year between 2000-2019. These estimates were generated using population and deaths data from the National Center for Health Statistics.

This dataset includes the following:

• CSV files of county-, state-, and national-level estimates of mortality rates and life expectancy for each age group, sex, year, and racial-ethnic group (non-Hispanic White [White], non-Hispanic Black [Black], non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander [Asian], non-Hispanic American Indian Alaska Native [AIAN], and Hispanic or Latino [Latino]). Blank cells are for masked estimates
• Code used to generate the estimates