demography-mortality

As of mid-2026, official global death counts for 2025 are not yet finalized. National statistics agencies typically release annual mortality data with a lag of 6–18 months, an...

Because official global death counts for a full calendar year are rarely finalized in real time, reliable numbers for 2025 are typically produced months or years after the year...

Every year, hundreds of millions of people die worldwide, and this article explains how to understand, verify, and contextualize those numbers. This evergreen explainer provides...

Because 2025 is a current calendar year, finalized national death counts and complete cause-of-death rankings will not be available until 2026, when the National Vital Statistic...