New York City Leading Causes of Death
The leading causes of death by sex and ethnicity in New York City in since 2007. Cause of death is derived from the NYC death certificate which is issued for every death that occurs in New York City. Report last ran: 09/24/2019 Rates based on small numbers (RSE > 30) as well as aggregate counts less than 5 have been suppressed in downloaded data Source: Bureau of Vital Statistics and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
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Freshness
The publisher's promise
How the agency that publishes this data says it keeps the data current.
Fresh
- Says it updates
- Annually
- Actually updates about every
- —
- Publisher last updated the data
- Jan 27, 2026
Our mirror
Whether our copy of this data is current with the source.
In sync
- We last synced
- Jan 27, 2026, 2:52 PM
- Rows in our copy
- 2,102
- Rows at the source
- 2,102
- Our copy trails the source by
- under a minute
Columns
Each source column, with the name and type we use to store it.
The publisher has not provided a data dictionary.
0 of 7 columns carry a concept; 7 carry a description from the publisher. Read the concept column before you join. A column with no concept carries no claim from us, and a name that looks like a key is not one.
| Source field | Display name | What the publisher says it is | Concept | Source type | Stored as | Stored type | Row identifier | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
age_adjusted_death_rate | Age Adjusted Death Rate | The age-adjusted death rate within the sex and Race/ethnicity category | Not bound | Text | age_adjusted_death_rate | text | — | |
deaths | Deaths | The number of people who died due to cause of death. | Not bound | Text | deaths | text | — | |
sex | Sex | The decedent's sex. | Not bound | Text | sex | text | — | |
race_ethnicity | Race Ethnicity | The decedent's ethnicity. | Not bound | Text | race_ethnicity | text | — | |
death_rate | Death Rate | The death rate within the sex and Race/ethnicity category | Not bound | Text | death_rate | text | — | |
year | Year | The year of death. | Not bound | Text | year | text | — | |
leading_cause | Leading Cause | The cause of death. | Not bound | Text | leading_cause | text | — |
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Source and attribution
Where this data comes from, which version we hold, and what we changed.
- Source
- https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/jb7j-dtam
- Version
- Content hash:
e60c7dc7e85e1c3893cd2d504718ed134388ab51e5130aabf65b9c33cfdae552 - What we changed
- We did not change the data. We stored it as published.
- Publisher
- codenownyc
- We retrieved it
- Jan 27, 2026, 2:52 PM
Update history
| Started | Kind | Result | Rows written | Produced by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 2026, 2:47 PM | full_replace | success | 2,102 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.68 |