Cause-of-death statistics in the Republic of Korea, 2014

Statistics Korea has published an annual report on the cause-of-death statistics of the Korean population since 1982. The first report, published in 1982, dealt with causes of death in 1980. Analyses of the cause-of-death data from 2003 to 2014 are available at the homepage of Statistics Korea [1]. Although this resource is easily accessible to the public, it is difficult to cite the data since the report is in Korean, making it difficult to foreigners to access. Therefore, the editor of the Journal of the Korean Medical Association and the corresponding staff of Statistics Korea discussed the publication of these data in the journal in December 2015, and agreed to jointly author an article in English drawing on the cause-of-death data from 2014, which was made 2014