Which has higher causes of mortality, Australia or Peru?

Australia, at 187,268 Deaths against 158,798 Deaths in Peru as of 2024.

What is the difference in causes of mortality between Australia and Peru?

28,470 Deaths, with Australia ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Peru?

39 years are reported by both, from 1980 to 2022.

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.

Australia vs Peru: Causes of mortality

Australia

187,268 Deaths

in 2024

Peru

158,798 Deaths

in 2022

Australia rank

16th

Peru rank

17th

Causes of mortality over time

Australia
Peru

How they compare

Australia currently reports 187,268 Deaths against 158,798 Deaths in Peru, a difference of 28,470 Deaths.

That makes Australia's figure about 1.2 times Peru's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 39 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Peru ahead.

Australia ranks 16th and Peru ranks 17th of 36 countries.

Across the 5 decades both report, Australia averaged higher in 4 and Peru in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Australia	Peru	Difference	Ahead
1980s	114,825 Deaths	91,961 Deaths	22,864 Deaths	Australia
1990s	124,980 Deaths	84,893 Deaths	40,087 Deaths	Australia
2000s	134,543 Deaths	86,775 Deaths	47,767 Deaths	Australia
2010s	154,502 Deaths	106,215 Deaths	48,287 Deaths	Australia
2020s	174,569 Deaths	217,316 Deaths	42,747 Deaths	Peru

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher causes of mortality, Australia or Peru?: Australia, at 187,268 Deaths against 158,798 Deaths in Peru as of 2024.
What is the difference in causes of mortality between Australia and Peru?: 28,470 Deaths, with Australia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Peru?: 39 years are reported by both, from 1980 to 2022.
How do Australia and Peru rank globally for causes of mortality?: Australia ranks 16th and Peru ranks 17th 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

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: 19 August 2026

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.