Africa, Asia, Oceania - INDEPTH Network Cause-Specific Mortality - Release 2014

No sampling, covers total population in demographic surveillance area


The number of deaths by sex and age group were weighted using the INDEPTH 2013 standard population structure for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Africa and Asia [1], as shown in Table 1. This public-domain standard population has been presented in relation to other global standards such as Segi and WHO, from which it differs in reflecting the higher fertility and younger-age mortality rates commonly seen in LMIC populations [1].

Each record contains a population weighting factor (wt) reflecting the ratio of the population fraction for its site, age group, sex and year to the corresponding age group and sex fraction in the standard population described in Table 1, for the purposes of standardisation. A further factor (lik_wt) is calculated for each record as the product of the VA cause likelihood and the population standard weighting (both described above), which can be used as the basis for calculating age-sex-time standardised CSMFs and CSMRs.

Table 1:

Age Group      INDEPTH 2013 standard
                  Male      Female
0-28 days        0.11%       0.10%
1-11 months      1.49%       1.38%
1-4 years        6.01%       5.57%
5-14 years      13.76%      12.57%
15-49 years     22.54%      23.50%
50-64 years      3.87%       4.36%
65+ years        2.22%       2.52%

1. Sankoh O, Sharrow D, Herbst K, Kabudula CW, Alam N, Kant S, et al. The INDEPTH standard population for low- and middle-income countries, 2013. Global Health Action 2014; 7:23286.