The Human Mortality Database (HMD, www.mortality.org), a joint project of the Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), the University of California, Berkeley, and the French Institute for Population Studies (INED), has undergone a major uplift as the Human Cause-of-death Data series have become part of the HMD (HCD@HMD).
The new component of the HMD includes data by cause of death for 18 countries. Its prior version, the stand-alone Human Cause-of-death Database, is thus now discontinued. Like its predecessor, HCD@HMD provides updated continuous data series with causes of death classified according to a constant (fixed) list/classification, taking the periodic changes to the International Classification of Diseases into account.