Australia vs Canada: Causes of mortality
Causes of mortality over time
- Australia
- Canada
How they compare
Canada currently reports 326,779 Deaths against 187,268 Deaths in Australia, a difference of 139,511 Deaths.
That makes Canada's figure about 1.7 times Australia's.
Across all 64 years both countries report, Canada has been ahead every year.
Australia ranks 16th and Canada ranks 13th of 36 countries.
Canada has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Australia | Canada | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 98,847 Deaths | 147,435 Deaths | 48,589 Deaths | Canada |
| 1970s | 110,558 Deaths | 164,452 Deaths | 53,894 Deaths | Canada |
| 1980s | 114,972 Deaths | 179,860 Deaths | 64,888 Deaths | Canada |
| 1990s | 124,560 Deaths | 207,294 Deaths | 82,734 Deaths | Canada |
| 2000s | 134,543 Deaths | 228,254 Deaths | 93,711 Deaths | Canada |
| 2010s | 154,502 Deaths | 262,207 Deaths | 107,704 Deaths | Canada |
| 2020s | 178,821 Deaths | 322,927 Deaths | 144,105 Deaths | Canada |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher causes of mortality, Australia or Canada?
- Canada, at 326,779 Deaths against 187,268 Deaths in Australia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in causes of mortality between Australia and Canada?
- 139,511 Deaths, with Canada ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Canada?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2024.
- How do Australia and Canada rank globally for causes of mortality?
- Australia ranks 16th and Canada ranks 13th 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.
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About this data
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.