🗣️ #episky #mortality #HMD #opendata New update of the weekly death series #STMF includes revised and updated #data for 17 countries Data ➡️ mortality.org/Data/STMF Country-specific details in the 📰 Metadata mortality.org/File/GetDocument/Public/STMF/DOC/STMFmetadata.pdf

📢 #episky #opendata 📈 #US #HMD series was updated through 2024 with newly released data 🔓 Data is freely available at mortality.org After COVID, the slow decline in excess male #mortality in the US continues.

📢 #episky #mortality #opendata 📈 #Iceland #HMD series updated through 2024 🔓 Data is freely available at mortality.org Life expectancy at birth continued to rise for men and women in 2024 after the life expectancy reversal that occurred in 2022. Life expectancy at 65 and 80 remains stable.

📢 #episky #mortality #opendata #HMD The weekly deaths series #STMF was just updated at mortality.org/Data/STMF ✅ New data for 32 countries ✅ Full data for 2025 for 34 countries To further explore the data, check out the excess visualization toolkit 👇 mpidr.shinyapps.io/stmortality/

📢 #episky #mortality STMF data series revised & updated ☑️ #Opendata ➡️ mortality.org/Data/STMF 🔵 New data for 24 countries 🟠 Full data for 2025 for 33 countries 🟡 All country-specific details in the Metadata

📢 #episky #mortality #opendata 📈 #Denmark #HMD series was updated through 2025 Full life tables & data ➡️ mortality.org In 2025, Danish #lifeexpectancy continued to grow for men and women at birth, 65, and 80.

📢📈 Republic of Korea was updated through 2023 The pandemic temporarily put South Korea's remarkable #longevity progress on hold. However, by 2024 the gender gap in e0 continued narrowing and shrank by 18% relative to 2 decades prior. Old-age sex gap remains at a plateau. Data 🌐 mortality.org

📢 #episki #mortality 📈 #Croatia #HMD series updated through 2024 Data ➡️ mortality.org Croatia has regained its #lifeexpectancy losses from the pandemic and crossed the 81.8 year mark for ♀️ and 76.1 yrs for ♂️. In 2024 the sex gap at birth fell to under 6 yrs for the first time in recent history.

📢 #episky #mortality Weekly death series #STMF revised and updated ☑️ #opendata ➡️ mortality.org/Data/STMF Country-specific details in the 📰 metadata mortality.org/File/GetDocument/Public/STMF/DOC/STMFmetadata.pdf

📢 #episky #mortality #opendata 📈 #Italy #HMD series updated through 2023 🔓 Data is freely available at mortality.org In 2023, Italy's birth cohorts continue to shrink, as the rest of the country continues to grow older and live longer.

Excited to see the Human Fertility Database here on Bluesky! 🎉 The #HFD provides high-quality and internationally comparable data on cohort and period #fertility 📊 Make sure to follow them 👇

📢 #HMD #episky #mortality #STMF data series revised & updated ✅ 🔵 New & updated data for 23 countries 🟠 Data for 2026 for 18 countries Data 👉 mortality.org/Data/STMF We invite you to explore the data using our visualization toolkit ⬇️ mpidr.shinyapps.io/stmortality/

📢 #episky #mortality #opendata 📈 #Luxembourg #HMD series was updated through 2024 Full life tables & data ➡️ mortality.org The 2024 Luxembourg #lifeexpectancy estimates at birth increased for women to a new high of 85.5 years, but decreased for men to 81 years.

📢 #episky #mortality 📈 #Taiwan #HMD series updated through 2024 In 2024, while #lifeexpectancy estimates at birth continue to increase for both men and women, they have yet to fully recover to the levels seen before COVID-19. 🌐 #Opendata available at mortality.org

📢 #episky #mortality #opendata 📈 #US #HMD series updated through 2024 🔓 Data is freely available at mortality.org Continuing divergence in #lifeexpectancy at birth between the US and other high-income countries in 2024.

📢 #episki #mortality 📈 #Chile #HMD series updated through 2024 Full life tables & data ➡️ mortality.org In 2023 Chile reattained its highest longevity since 2019. However, by 2024 life expectancy estimates showed a minor decline at most ages, except for a meagre 0.07-year increase at birth for ♂️.

📢 #mortality 📈 #HongKong #HMD series updated through 2024 Data ➡️ mortality.org Hong Kong SAR has regained its pre-Covid #longevity trajectory. In 2024 ♀️ gained 0.84 yrs in e0 vs. the previous high of 87.9 yrs in 2021. ♂️ gained 0.82 years on top of the previous high of 82.5 yrs in the same year.

✨ Human Life-Table Database Update ✨ The #HLD documents the evolution of human mortality by providing a quantitative life-table description of mortality patterns. 🔓 Data is freely available at lifetable.de 📈 15.000 #lifetables for 142 countries Learn more about the database 👇🧵

📢 #episky #mortality New year, new #STMF data 🎆 Revised and updated data available 📈 ➡️ mortality.org/Data/STMF 🔒 STMF data access is now limited to registered #HMD users to protect sensitive data. Log in with your existing HMD credentials to download the data series.

2025 is coming to an end, and the @hmdatabase.bsky.social team wants to thank all of our contributors, supporters, and users around the world 🧡🙏 Our highlight of the year: the 7th #HMD symposium in Paris 🎉 Wishing you happy holidays and looking forward to the year ahead ✨

📢 #episki #mortality 📈 #Slovakia #HMD series updated through 2024 Data ➡️ mortality.org By 2024 Slovakia had recovered from a 3-year dip in life expectancy at birth during the height of Covid. e(0) reached the new highs of 81.6 years for ♀️ and 75.0 years for ♂️

📢 #episki #mortality 📈 #Portugal #HMD series updated through 2024 Full life tables & data ➡️ mortality.org The gap between male and female life expectancy estimates at birth continued to narrow in 2024 for Portugal.

📢 #episky #mortality 📈 #Japan #HMD series updated through 2024 #opendata ➡️ mortality.org In 2024, life expectancy estimates at birth for men and women stayed the same for the third year in a row.

📢 #episky #mortality #opendata #HMD The weekly deaths series #STMF was just updated ✅ Download the latest version with new and updated data for 31 countries at mortality.org/Data/STMF To further explore the data, check out the excess visualization toolkit 👇 mpidr.shinyapps.io/stmortality/

📢 #episky #mortality 📈 #Switzerland #HMD series updated through 2024 Full life tables & data ➡️ mortality.org The life expectancy estimates at birth for men and women born in Switzerland in 2024 reached new highs at 85.90 and 82.42, respectively.

📢 #episky #mortality 📈 #Belgium #HMD series updated through 2024 Data ➡️ mortality.org The ratio of male to female life expectancy estimates decreased for ages 0, 65, and 80 in 2024, meaning gains in female life expectancy outpaced those in male life expectancy.

📢 #episky #mortality 📈 #HMD series updated through 2024 for #Estonia, #Latvia, and #Lithuania Data ➡️ mortality.org Life expectancy in the three Baltic countries reached historically high values: 75.1, 71.4, and 73.0 years for males, and 83.4, 81.2, and 81.7 years for females.

📢 #episky #mortality Weekly death series #STMF revised and updated ☑️ #opendata ➡️ mortality.org/Data/STMF Country-specific details in the 📰 metadata mortality.org/File/GetDocument/Public/STMF/DOC/STMFmetadata.pdf

That’s a wrap on #HMDsymposium2025 👏 A heartfelt thank you to everyone who made these inspiring days of exchange a great success 📈💡 Special thanks to @ined-english.bsky.social, @mpidr.bsky.social, and CEDA @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, for their support in making this event possible 🧡

The #HMDsymposium2025 is coming to an end with the final session on ✨new insights ✨, with contributions from Nadine Ouellette, Daniel Meier, Vladimir Shkolnikov, @paigepark.bsky.social, and @isamarinetti.bsky.social. Chair: Dmitri Jdanov #Longevity #LifeExpectancy #Forecasting #CausesOfDeath

Next up: Session VI on ✨models and measures✨, including presentations by Pedro Menezes De Araújo, @scpatricio.bsky.social, Jon Anson, and @paola.vazquez.dk, with Carl Boe serving as chair. #HMDsymposium2025 #MortalityData #LifeTable #AgeAtDeath

Session V on ✨cause-specific #mortality ✨ is led by @svitoslava.bsky.social and features presentations by Helena Chui, Clara Girault, @ischiathere.bsky.social, and Sergey Timonin. #HMDsymposium2025 #MortalityData #LifeExpectancy #Inequality #CausesOfDeath #GenderDifference

Jim Oeppen showing latitudinal gradient in life expectancy at @hmdatabase.bsky.social symposium in Paris.

Welcome back to day two of the #HMDsymposium2025! We’re starting with session IV on ✨global trends✨, featuring presentations by pgerland.bsky.social, @brunomasquelier.bsky.social, Isaac Sasson, @jiaxinshi.bsky.social, and Jim Oeppen. Chair: Domantas Jasilionis

#HMDsymposium2025 Day 1 ☑️ Thanks to all who made the first day a success 👏 — full of great talks, posters, and discussions. See you tomorrow!

We’re wrapping up the first day of the #HMDsymposium2025 with the ✨poster session✨ with, featuring contributions from @svitoslava.bsky.social, Timothy Adair, Ina Alliger, @josecas91.bsky.social, Özer Bakar, Agnieszka Fihel, Tatiana Sitchinava, @tothgcsaba.bsky.social, and Chiara Micheletti.

Hot take: "Flattening the curve" successfully lowered overall life expectancy deficits since 2020, but also prolonged the period of excess deaths compared to countries with massive mortality shocks in 2020/2021. That's a public health communication challenge.

Session III examines why #survival progress is slowing or reversing in the UK and US, with presentations by David Leon, Jesús-Daniel Zazueta-Borboa, @polizzan.bsky.social, and Al Klein, led by France Meslé. #HMDsymposium2025 #Lifespan #LifeExpectancy #Mortality

✨Subnational #mortality✨ is the focus of Session II, with presentations by Carlo-Giovanni Camarda, Jacob Martin, Michael Mühlichen, and Irma T. Elo. Chair: @ddukhovnov.bsky.social #HMDsymposium2025 #Longevity #Mortality #LifeExpectancy #Inequality

Session I on ✨pandemic & post-pandemic #mortality✨ features presentations by @jschoeley.com, Timothy Adair, Michel Guillot & Nazrul Islam, chaired by Vladimir Shkolnikov. #HMDsymposium2025 #LifeExpectancy #Inequality #Longevity

We’re kicking off the #HMDsymposium2025 with a welcome from @ined-english.bsky.social director François Clanché and @mpidr.bsky.social directors Mikko Myrskylä & @ezagheni.bsky.social

Bonjour Paris! 🗼 The #HMDsymposium2025 ✨Growing divergences in longevity in high-income populations✨ starts today, and we are looking forward to two days of inspiring presentations, posters, and vibrant scientific exchange. #episky #Mortality #Longevity

📢 #episky #mortality #opendata 📈 #Netherlands #HMD series updated through 2023 🔓 Data is freely available at mortality.org In 2023, the sex gap in #lifeexpectancy at birth remained nearly stable compared to 2022.

The 7️⃣th #HMD symposium is only one week away 🧐 Check out the program 👇 mortality.org/File/GetDocument/Public/HMD_7th_Symposium/Programme_JE%20HMD_2025.pdf ⏲️📅 October 9-10, 2025 🌍📍 @ined-english.bsky.social #episky #mortality #longevity #HMDsymposium2025

🗣️ #episky #mortality New update of the weekly death series #STMF includes revised and updated #data for 19 countries Data ➡️ mortality.org/Data/STMF Country-specific details in the 📰 Metadata mortality.org/File/GetDocument/Public/STMF/DOC/STMFmetadata.pdf

✨ New addition: HMD summary indicators ✨ To provide easy access to key period #mortality indicators, we now provide the following Excel tables for all #HMD countries: 🔹 Infant Mortality 🔸 Survival to age 65 🔹 Life Expectancy 🔸 Population Download 🔗 mortality.org

We are looking forward to the #HMD symposium next week 🎉

📢 #episky #mortality 📈 #Norway #HMD series updated through 2024 Full life tables & data ➡️ mortality.org The 2024 #lifeexpectancy estimate at birth for men in Norway is 81.59, a high that has been estimated previously for men in 2021.

✨ DOIs available for the core HMD✨ By country zipped data files now have DOIs 🗂️📑 Find them on the Zipped Data Files page: 🔹 By country / All HMD countries – current dataset 🔹 Previous versions – archived datasets 🔎➡️ mortality.org/Data/ZippedDataFiles

Exiting week of updates for the #HMD 🎉 What´s New❓ 🔵 DOIs for the core HMD 🟠 HMD summary indicators 🟡 #STMF update 🟢 Country updates for Norway, Latvia and the Netherlands ✨ Stay tuned to learn more...