Countries with no card
The atlas lists every country in the WHO file for 2023. A place is missing only when that file has no column for it.
The dropdown is the WHO Global Health Estimates for 2023, all 185 countries and areas in that workbook. Every one of them has a life expectancy and a crude death rate for the same year, so none was dropped for lack of a rate. The cards are estimates. Where death registration is incomplete they rest more on modelling than on certificates, and the methodology page says so.
Eleven member states under 90,000 people
WHO publishes a country row in these estimates for member states above 90,000 people. Antigua and Barbuda is the smallest state that gets one, at about 93,000 people in the same file. These eleven members are under that line, and the workbook leaves them out:
- Andorra
- Cook Islands
- Dominica
- Marshall Islands
- Monaco
- Nauru
- Niue
- Palau
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- San Marino
- Tuvalu
Places with no column of their own
A few names people will type into the search box are absent for a different reason.
- Taiwan. This workbook does not publish a Taiwan column, so there is no card.
- Kosovo. No column in the file.
- Liechtenstein. A UN member, and not a WHO member. The file is a WHO member-state file.
- Hong Kong and Macao. Counted inside China's figures, not as their own rows.
What does have a card
Puerto Rico has its own column, though it is a territory of the United States, so it is on the list. So is the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, under that name. Search also finds it as Palestine.
185 countries. The eleven member states above, plus Taiwan, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Hong Kong and Macao, are the gaps. For a place with no card, use the WHO estimates or the Global Burden of Disease. The cause names on the cards that do exist are defined in the glossary.