Contact
Corrections to the figures are the most useful thing you can send.
The best way to reach the Ledger is by email:
One person reads this, so a reply may take a few days. Everything gets read.
What is worth writing about
Corrections to the data
This is the most valuable kind of message. If a rate, percentage or country figure is wrong, out of date, or attributed to a source that does not actually support it, please say so. If you can, point to the dataset or publication that has it right. Confirmed corrections are applied and noted on the methodology page.
Sources you think are unsound
Several figures in the Bizarre & Rare section are folklore rather than counts, and the explainer on rare deaths says which ones. If you think another figure belongs with them, or that one treated there as folklore is in fact well evidenced, that is a useful argument to receive.
Accessibility problems
If any part of the site is unusable with a screen reader1, a keyboard, or reduced-motion2 settings switched on, that is treated as a defect rather than a preference. Please describe what you were using and what happened.
Press and permissions
Enquiries about writing about the project, or about reusing anything from it, are welcome at the same address.
What this address cannot help with
The Ledger cannot answer medical questions. It is a visualisation of mortality statistics, built by someone with no clinical training. Nothing on it, including the "How Will You Demise?" calculator, is a health service, medical advice, a diagnosis, a prognosis3 or a risk assessment. If you are worried about your health, please speak to a doctor or another registered health practitioner rather than to this site.
If you are in distress, this address is not a crisis service and is not monitored around the clock. Free, confidential help is available now. findahelpline.com lists support lines in most countries.
Privacy
Emails sent to the address above are used only to answer the message they arrive in. They are not added to a mailing list and they are not passed on. The privacy policy describes what the site itself does. It sets no cookies of its own, and it does not ask who you are. A change of aspect on the homepage is remembered on your device only. It counts page views without a cookie, and while an advertising application is under review it loads Google's advertising script, which may set a cookie from Google's own domain. The host keeps ordinary server logs.
Notes
- Screen reader. Software that speaks the text of a page, or presents it as Braille, so that someone who cannot see the screen can use it. ↩
- Reduced motion. A setting in the operating system or the browser that asks websites to cut down animation and other movement. ↩
- Prognosis. A forecast of how an illness is likely to go. Naming the illness is a diagnosis. The calculator on this site does neither. ↩