COD 2012 groups the most relevant causes of deaths and is used for dissemination in Eurostat’s dissemination database. The shortlist was established in 2012 and is maintained by Eurostat. The shortlist didn’t originally include codes for COVID-19, which were codes introduced by WHO as emergency codes and implemented by Eurostat as of reference year 2020. They are listed in a distinct code list (covid-19) in this dataset.
