📊 update the main WHO mortality dataset

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• Metadata changes: 8

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= Dataset garden/cardiovascular_diseases/2023-11-01/deaths_from_cardiovascular_diseases_vs_other
  ~ Table deaths_from_cardiovascular_diseases_vs_other (changed metadata)
-     -     citation_full: WHO Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact (DDI), World Health Organization (2024)
+     +     citation_full: WHO Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact (DDI), World Health Organization (2026)
-     -     date_accessed: '2025-04-17'
+     +     date_accessed: '2026-03-12'
-     -     date_published: '2025-02-13'
+     +     date_published: '2026-02-23'
    ~ Dim country
+       + New values: 1 / 5005 (0.02%)
           year        country
           2022 United Kingdom
    ~ Dim year
+       + New values: 1 / 5005 (0.02%)
                 country  year
          United Kingdom  2022
    ~ Column cancer_and_neoplasms (new data)
+       + New values: 1 / 5005 (0.02%)
                 country  year  cancer_and_neoplasms
          United Kingdom  2022             26.523218
    ~ Column cardiovascular_diseases (new data)
+       + New values: 1 / 5005 (0.02%)
                 country  year  cardiovascular_diseases
          United Kingdom  2022                 24.38278
    ~ Column congenital_and_maternal_conditions (new data)
+       + New values: 1 / 5005 (0.02%)
                 country  year  congenital_and_maternal_conditions
          United Kingdom  2022                            0.593635
    ~ Column digestive_and_oral_health (new data)
+       + New values: 1 / 5005 (0.02%)
                 country  year  digestive_and_oral_health
          United Kingdom  2022                   5.349269
    ~ Column endocrine_and_nutritional_disorders (new data)
+       + New values: 1 / 5005 (0.02%)
                 country  year  endocrine_and_nutritional_disorders
          United Kingdom  2022                             2.110567
    ~ Column ill_defined_causes_and_injuries (new data)
+       + New values: 1 / 5005 (0.02%)
                 country  year  ill_defined_causes_and_injuries
          United Kingdom  2022                         7.545795
    ~ Column infectious_diseases (new data)
+       + New values: 1 / 5005 (0.02%)
                 country  year  infectious_diseases
          United Kingdom  2022             9.168957
    ~ Column neurological_and_mental_health (new data)
+       + New values: 1 / 5005 (0.02%)
                 country  year  neurological_and_mental_health
          United Kingdom  2022                       15.505383
    ~ Column other_diseases_and_conditions (new data)
+       + New values: 1 / 5005 (0.02%)
                 country  year  other_diseases_and_conditions
          United Kingdom  2022                       1.121886
    ~ Column respiratory_diseases (new data)
+       + New values: 1 / 5005 (0.02%)
                 country  year  respiratory_diseases
          United Kingdom  2022              6.931128
    ~ Column unidentified_causes (new data)
+       + New values: 1 / 5005 (0.02%)
                 country  year  unidentified_causes
          United Kingdom  2022              0.76738
= Dataset garden/growth/2025-01-16/gdppc_vs_living_conditions
  ~ Table gdppc_vs_living_conditions (changed metadata)
-     -     citation_full: WHO Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact (DDI), World Health Organization (2024)
+     +     citation_full: WHO Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact (DDI), World Health Organization (2026)
-     -     date_accessed: '2025-04-17'
+     +     date_accessed: '2026-03-12'
-     -     date_published: '2025-02-13'
+     +     date_published: '2026-02-23'
= Dataset garden/maternal_mortality/2024-07-08/maternal_mortality
  ~ Table maternal_mortality (changed metadata)
-     -     citation_full: WHO Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact (DDI), World Health Organization (2024)
+     +     citation_full: WHO Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact (DDI), World Health Organization (2026)
-     -     date_accessed: '2025-04-17'
+     +     date_accessed: '2026-03-12'
-     -     date_published: '2025-02-13'
+     +     date_published: '2026-02-23'
+ Dataset garden/who/2026-03-12/mortality_database
+ + Table mortality_database
+   + Column number
+   + Column percentage_of_cause_specific_deaths_out_of_total_deaths
+   + Column age_standardized_death_rate_per_100_000_standard_population
+   + Column death_rate_per_100_000_population
+ Dataset garden/who/2026-03-12/mortality_database_aggregated
+ + Table mortality_database_aggregated
+   + Column deaths


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Hint: Run this locally with etl diff REMOTE data/ --include yourdataset --verbose --snippet

Automatically updated datasets matching excess_mortality|covid|fluid|flunet|country_profile|garden/ihme_gbd/2019/gbd_risk are not included

Edited: 2026-03-19 18:05:52 UTC
Execution time: 5.54 seconds

[veronikasamborska1994]

Closing since trying to reverse engineer everything from the raw files hasn't worked. Also confirmed with the WHO that the datasets on the main platform will be updated in a couple of weeks.