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...

📢 #episky #mortality #causesofdeath 📈 #US cause-specific data series #HCD@HMD was revised and updated through 2023 🔗Access the data at ⬇️ mortality.org/Country/HCDCountry?cntr=USA

📢 #episky #mortality New version of the #STMF data series with new and updated data for 31 countries available at mortality.org/Data/STMF Explore the data via the excess visualization toolkit 👇 mpidr.shinyapps.io/stmortality/

📈 SDRs by sex and year are now available 📉 ➡️ mortality.org We are excited to announce that the #HMD has been updated to include period age-standardized #DeathRates (SDR) by sex and year, based on the two European Population Standards, 1976 & 2013 🔎 Learn more👇🧵

📣 Check out the Canadian Mortality Database (CHMD) 🔗 www.bdlc.umontreal.ca 🔎 Detailed #mortality data for Canada, its provinces and territories from 1921-2023

📢 #episky #mortality Weekly death series #STMF revised and updated for 17 countries ☑️ #opendata ➡️ mortality.org/Data/STMF Country-specific details in the 📰 metadata mortality.org/File/GetDocument/Public/STMF/DOC/STMFmetadata.pdf

📢 #episky #mortality 📈 #France #HMD series (Total & Civilian) was updated through 2023 Full life tables & data estimates 👉 mortality.org #lifeexpectancy in France has fully recovered from the COVID crisis in 2023

📢 #episky #mortality #causesofdeath The cause-specific data series HCD@HMD was revised for #France for the years 2017–2022 using data from the National Health Data System #SNDS, which extends the open age interval from 85+ to 100+ Data ⬇️ mortality.org/Country/HCDCountry?cntr=FRATNP

#episky #mortality 📢 New version of the #STMF data series available 🔵 New data for 22 countries 🟠 Data for Taiwan until w52 of 2024 Explore the data via the excess visualization toolkit 👇 mpidr.shinyapps.io/stmortality

#episky #mortality 📣 #Sweden #HMD series updated through 2024 🔓 Data is freely available at mortality.org In 2024, the gap between #lifeexpectancy for men at birth and women at birth continues to narrow in Sweden.

#episky #mortality 📈 #Finland #HMD series updated through 2024 Full life tables & data ➡️ mortality.org In 2024 Finnish #lifeexpectancy has surpassed its pre-Covid levels (e0 = 82.3), and is close to the 2024 forecast based on the 2015-2019 linear trend.

📢 #HMD users #episky #mortality, Data zipped by indicators are now organized within a single file per statistic, as compared to the previous multiple country-specific files for each statistic ➡️ mortality.org/Data/ZippedDataFiles

📣 #episky #mortality 📈 #US #HMD series was updated through 2023 with newly released data Data ➡️ mortality.org US life expectancy at birth in 2023 still half a year behind 2019 Details in the 📰 Background and documentation mortality.org/File/GetDocument/hmd.v6/USA/Public/InputDB/USAcom.pdf

📢 #episky #mortality STMF data series revised & updated ☑️ #Opendata ➡️ mortality.org/Data/STMF 🔵 New data for 31 countries 🟠 Full data for 2024 for 34 countries 🟡 All country-specific details in the Metadata

It is with deep sadness that we learned about the death of our dear colleague and friend, Ward Kingkade (US Census Bureau), who passed away on May 13, 2025. Ward was a great demographer who made a huge contribution to HMD & HFD database projects. We will miss him a lot. 🕯️

📢 #episky #mortality #lifeexpectancy 📈 #Canada #HMD series updated through 2023 Full life tables & #opendata ➡️ mortality.org Life expectancy experienced an increase for both men and women at birth, 65, and 80 for the first time in 4 years.

📢 #episky #mortality #causesofdeath ‼️ The cause-specific data series HCD@HMD was updated Data and documentation is available at ➡️ mortality.org/Data/HCD Curious about what's been updated? Keep reading 👇🧵(1/3)

📢 #episky #mortality Weekly death series #STMF revised and updated for 16 countries ☑️ #opendata 👉 mortality.org/Data/STMF Country-specific details in the 📰 Metadata mortality.org/File/GetDocument/Public/STMF/DOC/STMFmetadata.pdf

📣 #episky #mortality #opendata #lifeexpectancy 📈 #Italy #HMD series updated through 2022 Full life tables & data 👉 mortality.org By the end of 2022, life expectancy at birth has yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels for both men and women.

📢 #episky #mortality #opendata 📈 #Iceland #HMD series updated through 2023 Data ➡️ mortality.org As of 2023, men's life expectancy at birth continues its downward trend since 2021, while #lifeexpectancy for women at all ages and for men at other ages is increasing.