Canadian mortality clock: Estimated mortality by the second

On this page

• Introduction
• Mortality clocks by causes
• Estimated mortality exploration tool
• Mortality data table
• Learn more about mortality and population health factors
• Acknowledgements

Introduction

Purpose

By illustrating the frequency with which someone in Canada is likely to pass away from different causes, this tool helps to show:

• the current trends in causes of death among people living in Canada
• the most common causes of death among particular populations

Beyond being educational, this tool can help policymakers discover topics and populations of focus for public health initiatives.

Mortality clocks by causes

Figure 1: Mortality clocks for the top 10 causes of death among

Figure 1: Text description and annual estimates

Mortality exploration tool

Use the bargraph to display the estimated number of deaths in Canada. The values update every time that a new death is estimated to have occurred. You can display the estimated number of deaths so far today or so far this year. You can also breakdown the estimates by cause, age, and sex.

Figure 2: Estimated number of deaths in Canada so far due to , by

Note: this figure only displays data if it is a top-10 cause of death for the selected grouping. When no data is shown, it does not mean that 0 deaths occurred in the grouping.

Figure 2: Text description

Mortality data table

In the following table, you will find the top 10 causes of death among all Canadians. Data is optionally broken down by sex or by age. For each grouping, you can either display the number of deaths recorded in 2024 or the estimated number of deaths that will occur in 2026, as well as the average estimated time between deaths.

Table 1: Top 10 causes of death in Canada ,

Learn more about mortality and population health factors

• Canada's population clock (real-time model) - Statistics Canada
• How healthy are people in Canada? An indicators dashboard - Canada.ca
• Big Picture Mortality in Canada: Data blog - Canada.ca

Acknowledgements

This tool is an update and expansion of the original Canadian Health Clock. The orginal clock was developed in 2019 in a collaboration between Health Infobase and Drs. Bernard C. K. Choi and Douglas G. Manuel. Thank you for your innovative work towards health risk communication and knowledge translation, without which this present update would not have been possible.