{
  "name": "U.S. counties: deaths as a count and as rates",
  "desc": "One row per county (3,144): July 1, 2025 population, deaths and births from July 2024 to June 2025, business establishments in 2023, deaths per 1,000 residents (ours and the Census Bureau's published rate), land area, densities and the color class of each county on every map on this page.",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "The Yardstick Almanac",
  "url": "https://theyardstickalmanac.com/maps/choropleth-map/",
  "from": [
    "U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 county population estimates and components (CO-EST2025-ALLDATA, released March 2026), public domain",
    "U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023, county file, public domain",
    "U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 cartographic boundary files, counties and states, 1:20,000,000, public domain"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by The Yardstick Almanac from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 county population estimates and components (CO-EST2025-ALLDATA, released March 2026), public domain; U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023, county file, public domain; U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 cartographic boundary files, counties and states, 1:20,000,000, public domain; computed 2026-11-01, CC BY 4.0"
  ]
}