Argentina vs South Africa: Causes of mortality

Argentina
353,373 Deaths
in 2023
South Africa
487,682 Deaths
in 2020
Argentina rank
12th
South Africa rank
10th

Causes of mortality over time

  • Argentina
  • South Africa
200.0k300.0k400.0k500.0k600.0k196619942023

How they compare

South Africa currently reports 487,682 Deaths against 353,373 Deaths in Argentina, a difference of 134,309 Deaths.

That makes South Africa's figure about 1.4 times Argentina's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 28 shared years of data; in 1993 it was Argentina ahead.

Argentina ranks 12th and South Africa ranks 10th of 36 countries.

South Africa has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Argentina South Africa Difference Ahead
1990s 269,637 Deaths 308,060 Deaths 38,422 Deaths South Africa
2000s 294,831 Deaths 543,585 Deaths 248,754 Deaths South Africa
2010s 329,184 Deaths 475,084 Deaths 145,900 Deaths South Africa
2020s 373,049 Deaths 487,682 Deaths 114,633 Deaths South Africa

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher causes of mortality, Argentina or South Africa?
South Africa, at 487,682 Deaths against 353,373 Deaths in Argentina as of 2020.
What is the difference in causes of mortality between Argentina and South Africa?
134,309 Deaths, with South Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Argentina and South Africa?
28 years are reported by both, from 1993 to 2020.
How do Argentina and South Africa rank globally for causes of mortality?
Argentina ranks 12th and South Africa ranks 10th of 36 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as Causes of mortality. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Argentina vs South Africa: Causes of mortality. Statizoid, drawing on Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Retrieved 02 September 2026, from https://health.statizoid.com/compare/causes-of-mortality/argentina/south-africa/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under OECD Terms and Conditions (attribution required); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://health.statizoid.com/compare/causes-of-mortality/argentina/south-africa/">Argentina vs South Africa: Causes of mortality</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Causes of mortality
Unit
Deaths
Source
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Licence
OECD Terms and Conditions (attribution required)
Coverage
46 places, 2,503 data points, 1960–2024
Last refreshed

This dataset presents the number of deaths and age-standardised death rates by causes of deaths. The number of deaths according to sex and selected causes are extracted from the World Health Organization Mortality Database available at https://www.who.int/data/data-collection-tools/who-mortality-database. Detailed information on the coverage and reliability of the cause-of-death data is regularly published in World Health Statistics Annuals. The selected causes of death presented in the OECD Health Statistics database are detailed in an Excel file available for download, with codes according to the Tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) along with codes from other ICD revisions used in the WHO Mortality Database. Please refer to the Sources and Methods for detailed country-specific information.