2026 National Death Index

e District of Columbia, New York City, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands to continue collection of information data to establish, maintain, and operate the National Death Index and to assure the qualitative reliability and timely availablity of those

data for the upcoming performance period. The National Death Index (NDI) is operated by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) to fulfill its legislatively mandated mission to procure national vital statistics based on data from