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GRIM - General Record of Incidence of Mortality

Name: GRIM - General Record of Incidence of Mortality
Creator: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/

AIHW General Record of Incidence of Mortality (GRIM) - a national, long-term time series of deaths by cause × year × sex × age group. Covers ~120 years (1907 onward) and includes counts and rates per 100,000 (crude and age-standardised). The single best dataset for any "how have

Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare · Licensed CC-BY 3.0 AU · dataset id aihw.GRIM_DEATHS

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  https://api.ausdata.io/v1/data/aihw/GRIM_DEATHS

Returns JSON with the original Australian Institute of Health and Welfare attribution on every response. Add ?format=csv for CSV, ?start=YYYY-MM to return rows from a period forward, or ?limit=1000 to fetch more than the default page.

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