Open Canada Vital Statistics Tracker has now its own newsletter, portal and twitter!
Welcome to the 'Open Canada: Vital Statistics' newsletter. Main features of the App.
UPDATED: 12 January 2023
Last record in data: 2022-11-05
Better layout for stillbirths. Deaths by cause chart can now also be viewed in interactive mode.
UPDATED: 15 December 2022
Last record in data: 2022-10-01
Annual stillbirths stats added (Last record: 2021)
Welcome!
Open Canada Vital Statistics Tracker Web App has now its own newsletter, portal, confidential email and twitter!
Portal: OpenCanada.info
Twitter: OpenCanada_info
Similar applications:
Sister Web Apps: www.mortality.watch, www.usmortality.com
StatCan Provisional deaths and excess mortality in Canada dashboard (official)
Main App features
‘Death by Cause’ panel
allows to compare to pre-pandemic two-year average
for each province and each death cause
shows data raw data, averaged over several weeks and per 1 mullion
multiple visualization options
overlay with vaccination data (prior to boosters)
data shown as charts, interactive time-series, interactive table (Grid) with raw and cumulative data, as statistics summary
Alternative view (Reverse axes), also viewing leading death causes
‘Death by Age’ panel
results are plotted for each province and each age group
data can be shows using different levels of granularity (weekly - averages over several weeks, monthly, quarterly, annually
one can load historical releases of the data and compare them to one another
Alternative view (Reverse axes), also comparing latest data releases to the old one:
‘Births’ panel
This is a simple one page visualization of births and stillbirths reported by Statistics Canada, shown interactive chart and interactive table. This data is published once a year, and provides annual total only. The latest release was published in September 2022 and shows data up to 2021.
Compared to other countries, Canada appears to have one of longest delays in reporting such data. Many countries also provide such statistics on a monthly basis, but Canada does not.
Merry Christmas to you & Yours!