Death

DEATH (사망) is a table in the Cancer Public Library. One row is one death of a person on RGST, from 2012 through 2023, for 889,536 deaths. A person who was alive at the end of 2023 has no row. The row joins to the rest of the library on SN_KEY.

The variables are listed, each with its own page, in the variable list.

Source

The count, years, and variables follow data dictionary version 4.0, Table 2 and the death-table overview (September 2026).

Variables

Variable	한글	Definition
DREGDATE	사망연월일	Date of death, YYYYMMDD
SAIN1	사망원인코드1	Underlying cause, in the Korean Standard Classification of Diseases (KCD). Sensitive causes in chapters 1 (A00–B99), 5 (F00–F99), 19 (S00–T98), and 20 (V01–Y98) are collapsed to a block, such as V59 to V50–V59
SAIN2	사망원인코드2	External-cause detail (V01–Y98) when SAIN1 is an injury code (S00–T98). The same sensitive-cause collapsing applies

Cause-of-death codes follow the statistics-office notice of 1 July 2020 (국가데이터처 고시 제2020-175호).