Table 1.

Summary of death registration sources for the six selected Latin American countries in 2020

Country	Data source	Place of death registration	Area studied	Periodicity of data availabilitya	Smallest geographical coverage	Data qualityb
Brazil	Ministry of Health	Place of residence	27 federal states	Yearly data available since 1979	Municipality level	90–99% coverage of death counts
Chile	Ministry of Health	Place of residence	16 regions	Yearly data available since 1955	Municipality level	90–99% coverage of death counts
Ecuador	National Ecuadorian Statistical Office	Place of residence	24 provinces	Yearly data available since 1961	Municipality level	80–89% coverage of death counts
Guatemala	National Registry of Persons	Place of residence	22 departments	Yearly data available since 2009	Municipality level	94% coverage of death counts
Mexico	Secretariat of Health	Place of residence	32 federal states	Yearly data available since 1955	Municipality level	90–99% coverage of death counts
Peru	Ministry of Health	Place of residence	25 departments	Yearly data available since 1966	Municipality level	50–74% coverage of death counts

^aThe year that each country started to collect death information is from the World Health Organization

^bBased on the United Nations Demographic Yearbook Vital Statistics Questionnaire (United Nations Statistics Division) for the following years: 2017 (Brazil), 2020 (Chile), 2020 (Ecuador), 2007 (Guatemala), 2020 (Mexico), and 2015 (Peru)