Estimates were produced for mortality rates and life expectancy at the merged county level in the United States, and by educational attainment population, for each year 2000 to 2019. These estimates were produced using population and deaths data from the National Center for Health Statistics.

This data set includes the following:

• CSV files of merged county-, state-, and national-level estimates of mortality rates and life expectancy for each age group, sex, year, and racial-ethnic group (all of which are non-Latino, except for the Latino group): White, Black, American Indian Alaska Native (AIAN), Asian Pacific Island (API), and Latino. Blank cells are for masked estimates.
• Code used to generate the estimates.