National Vital Statistics System

The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) is an inter-governmental system of sharing data on the vital statistics of the population of the United States. It involves coordination between the different state health departments of the US states and the National Center for Health Statistics, a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The National Vital Statistics System includes the following data sets and publications:

All data is accessible online on the NVSS website.

The following programs are related to the National Vital Statistics System:

Data from the National Vital Statistics System has been cited in academic research on many topics, including births and homicides.

A paper by Weed for Population Index described the history of NVSS and how to prepare it for the next century.

Libraries and other link collections have pointed to the NVSS as an official data source for the vital statistics of the United States.