Dataset: Cause Of Death In Brazil, 2019-2020

About this Dataset

Cause Of Death In Brazil, 2019-2020

Context

The registry offices in Brazil decided to make available some charts about the registered deaths in Brazil since the coronavirus pandemic. Through the requests to visualize these charts is possible to obtain the raw data and make our own analysis or visualizations.

https://transparencia.registrocivil.org.br/especial-covid

Content

This data contain the number of registered deaths by day, state, gender, age, skin color and cause of death (mainly focused in covid-19 and cardiovascular diseases)[1] occurred between 01-01-2019 and 15-09-2020.

This data was collected between 14/09/2020 and 16/09/2020 and can be updated, since it can take some days until the death is registered by the family, by the registry office and then provided in the platform.

The data was also translated to English[2].

[1] The cause of death was selected following several rules that are listed in the end of their website.

[2] The skin color terms were translated based in this article.

Acknowledgements

The data is available at https://transparencia.registrocivil.org.br/ and was obtained by doing some web scraping.

Tables

Death Cause Brazil

@kaggle.amandalk_cause_of_death_in_brazil_20192020.death_cause_brazil

1.86 MB
1098241 rows
7 columns


CREATE TABLE death_cause_brazil (
  "date" TIMESTAMP,
  "state" VARCHAR,
  "gender" VARCHAR,
  "age" VARCHAR,
  "color" VARCHAR,
  "cause" VARCHAR,
  "total" BIGINT
);