This file contains data from the Global Burden of Disease Study retrieved from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at http://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-results-tool. It has four different sheets; “data-PLOS”, “pivot”, “code” and survival”. data-PLOS: This sheet includes mortality data files of Ethiopia for the years 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2015 directly retrieved from the global burden of disease study; IHME website; Pivot: This sheet is a pivot format of the data-PLOS which helps for further categorization and ordering the causes of mortality based on their burden in terms of death, sex, year and age categories; Code: the code sheet is a direct download of the causes of death from IHME code book. It helps to identify each cause by level (Hierarchy I, Hierarchy II, and Hierarchy III);Survival: This sheet includes the final 20 causes of death (including others) that are selected for life expectancy decomposition by year ready to be exported to survival 6-software.

Life expectancy, Death rates, Public and occupational health, Global health, Ethiopia, Neglected tropical diseases, Infectious diseases, Lower respiratory tract