🦠 Chile COVID-19 Mortality Analysis (2020-2024)

📃 Description of the Project

This project focuses on analyzing COVID-19 mortality data in Chile from 2020 to 2024. With at least 60,000 records, the dataset provides critical insights into the impact of the pandemic on the population.

The project leverages Python for data processing and analysis and Google Sheets for collaborative data exploration.

🎯 Key objectives

• Cleaning and organizing the mortality dataset for meaningful analysis.
• Exploring trends and patterns, such as mortality rates by region, age, or time.
• Visualizing data to communicate insights effectively.
• Building reproducible workflows for data analysis and reporting.

🗄️ Data Dictionary

Nº	Variable Name	Description	Data Type	Values
1	AÑO	Year of the death date	Number	N/A
2	FECHA_DEF	Date of the death date	Date	N/A
3	SEXO	Gloss identifying biological sex	Number	1: Male, 2: Female, 9: Other
4	EDAD_TIPO	Unit of age measurement	Number	1: Years, 2: Months, 3: Days
5	EDAD_CANT	Numerical record of the patient's age at admission	Number	N/A
6	COD_COMUNA	Code of the commune of residence of the deceased, according to the political-administrative division updated in 2019	Number	N/A
7	COMUNA	Gloss of the commune of residence of the deceased, according to the political-administrative division updated in 2019	Text	N/A
8	NOMBRE_REGION	Gloss of the region of residence	Text	N/A
9	DIAG1	Basic cause of death	Text	N/A
10	CAPITULO_DIAG1	ICD-10 chapter according to the cause of death	Text	N/A
11	GLOSA_CAPITULO_DIAG1	Gloss of the ICD-10 chapter according to the cause of death	Text	N/A
12	CODIGO_GRUPO_DIAG1	Group code of the cause of death according to ICD-10	Text	N/A
13	GLOSA_GRUPO_DIAG1	Gloss of the group code of the cause of death according to ICD-10	Text	N/A
14	CODIGO_CATEGORIA_DIAG1	Category code of the cause of death according to ICD-10	Text	N/A
15	GLOSA_CATEGORIA_DIAG1	Gloss code of the cause of death according to ICD-10	Text	N/A
16	CODIGO_SUBCATEGORIA_DIAG1	Category code of the cause of death according to ICD-10	Text	N/A
17	GLOSA_SUBCATEGORIA_DIAG1	Gloss of the category code of the cause of death according to ICD-10	Text	N/A
18	DIAG2	External cause of death	Text	N/A
19	CAPITULO_DIAG2	ICD-10 chapter according to the cause of death	Text	N/A
20	GLOSA_CAPITULO_DIAG2	Gloss of the ICD-10 chapter according to the cause of death	Text	N/A
21	CODIGO_GRUPO_DIAG2	Group code of the cause of death according to ICD-10	Text	N/A
22	GLOSA_GRUPO_DIAG2	Gloss of the group code of the cause of death according to ICD-10	Text	N/A
23	CODIGO_CATEGORIA_DIAG2	Category code of the cause of death according to ICD-10	Text	N/A
24	GLOSA_CATEGORIA_DIAG2	Gloss of the category code of the cause of death according to ICD-10	Text	N/A
25	CODIGO_SUBCATEGORIA_DIAG2	Category code of the cause of death according to ICD-10	Text	N/A
26	GLOSA_SUBCATEGORIA_DIAG2	Gloss of the category code of the cause of death according to ICD-10	Text	N/A
27	LUGAR_DEFUNCION	Describes the place where the death occurs	Text	N/A

✨🗄️✨ Clean Data Dictionary

Nº	Variable Name	Description	Data Type	Values
1	AÑO	Year of the death date	Number	N/A
2	FECHA_DEF	Date of the death date	Date	N/A
3	SEXO_NOMBRE	Gloss identifying biological sex	Number	N/A
4	EDAD_CANT	Numerical record of the patient's age at admission	Number	N/A
5	COMUNA	Gloss of the commune of residence of the deceased, according to the political-administrative division updated in 2019	Text	N/A
6	NOMBRE_REGION	Gloss of the region of residence	Text	N/A
7	LUGAR_DEFUNCION	Describes the place where the death occurs	Text	N/A

📊 Charts

Month Deaths By Gender

Yearly Deaths By Region

📝 Download PDF

Month Deaths By Gender

Yearly Deaths By Region

🔗 Important Links

• Googlesheets Database

🎖️ Acknowledgments

The data used in this project, including COVID-19 mortality records in Chile from 2020 to 2024, is provided by the Chilean government’s open data platform:

• Defunciones por COVID19

Special thanks to Pamela Suarez (deis@minsal.cl) for creating and curating the dataset. I acknowledge and appreciate her work in making this information publicly accessible.

Thanks to the Ministerio de Salud de Chile and related governmental agencies for making this data publicly available.