Australia vs Greece: Causes of mortality
Causes of mortality over time
- Australia
- Greece
How they compare
Australia currently reports 187,268 Deaths against 127,294 Deaths in Greece, a difference of 59,974 Deaths.
That makes Australia's figure about 1.5 times Greece's.
Across all 62 years both countries report, Australia has been ahead every year.
Australia ranks 16th and Greece ranks 19th of 36 countries.
Australia has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Australia | Greece | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 100,000 Deaths | 68,782 Deaths | 31,218 Deaths | Australia |
| 1970s | 110,558 Deaths | 78,824 Deaths | 31,734 Deaths | Australia |
| 1980s | 114,972 Deaths | 90,432 Deaths | 24,540 Deaths | Australia |
| 1990s | 124,560 Deaths | 98,972 Deaths | 25,589 Deaths | Australia |
| 2000s | 134,543 Deaths | 105,919 Deaths | 28,624 Deaths | Australia |
| 2010s | 154,502 Deaths | 117,272 Deaths | 37,230 Deaths | Australia |
| 2020s | 176,710 Deaths | 135,816 Deaths | 40,894 Deaths | Australia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher causes of mortality, Australia or Greece?
- Australia, at 187,268 Deaths against 127,294 Deaths in Greece as of 2024.
- What is the difference in causes of mortality between Australia and Greece?
- 59,974 Deaths, with Australia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Greece?
- 62 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2023.
- How do Australia and Greece rank globally for causes of mortality?
- Australia ranks 16th and Greece ranks 19th 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.