---
language:
- en
pretty_name: Weekly Provisional Counts of Deaths by State and Select Causes, 2020-2023
tags:
- hhs
- cdc
- cancer
- coronavirus
- covid-19
- deaths
- diabetes
- influenza
- mortality
- nchs
- nvss
- pneumonia
- provisional
- septicemia
- state
- weekly
---

# Weekly Provisional Counts of Deaths by State and Select Causes, 2020-2023

## Description

Effective September 27, 2023, this dataset will no longer be updated. Similar data are accessible from wonder.cdc.gov.

Provisional counts of deaths by the week the deaths occurred, by state of occurrence, and by select underlying causes of death for 2020-2023.  The dataset also includes weekly provisional counts of death for COVID-19, coded to ICD-10 code U07.1 as an underlying or multiple cause of death.

NOTE: death counts are presented with a one week lag.

## Dataset Details

- **Publisher**: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- **Temporal Coverage**: 2020-01-04/2023-07-22
- **Geographic Coverage**: United States, Puerto Rico
- **Last Modified**: 2025-04-21
- **Contact**: National Center for Health Statistics (cdcinfo@cdc.gov)

## Source

Original data can be found at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/index.htm

## Usage

You can load this dataset using:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
 dataset = load_dataset('HHS-Official/weekly-provisional-counts-of-deaths-by-state-and-s')
```
## License

This dataset is licensed under https://www.usa.gov/government-works