<p>This file contains data from the Global Burden of Disease Study retrieved from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at <a href="http://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-results-tool" target="_blank">http://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-results-tool</a>. It has four different sheets; <i>“data-PLOS”</i>, <i>“pivot”</i>, <i>“code”</i> and <i>survival”</i>. <b><i>data-PLOS</i>:</b> This sheet includes mortality data files of Ethiopia for the years 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2015 directly retrieved from the global burden of disease study; IHME website; <b><i>Pivot</i>:</b> This sheet is a pivot format of the data-PLOS which helps for further categorization and ordering the causes of mortality based on their burden in terms of death, sex, year and age categories; <b><i>Code</i>:</b> the code sheet is a direct download of the causes of death from IHME code book. It helps to identify each cause by level (Hierarchy I, Hierarchy II, and Hierarchy III);<b><i>Survival</i>:</b> This sheet includes the final 20 causes of death (including others) that are selected for life expectancy decomposition by year ready to be exported to survival 6-software.</p> <p>(XLSX)</p>