Belgium vs Portugal: Causes of mortality
Causes of mortality over time
- Belgium
- Portugal
How they compare
Portugal currently reports 118,570 Deaths against 110,377 Deaths in Belgium, a difference of 8,193 Deaths.
That makes Portugal's figure about 1.1 times Belgium's.
The two have swapped places 7 times across 59 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Belgium ahead.
Belgium ranks 23rd and Portugal ranks 21st of 36 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Belgium averaged higher in 3 and Portugal in 4.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Belgium | Portugal | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 114,858 Deaths | 97,319 Deaths | 17,539 Deaths | Belgium |
| 1970s | 116,810 Deaths | 95,956 Deaths | 20,854 Deaths | Belgium |
| 1980s | 110,637 Deaths | 96,005 Deaths | 14,632 Deaths | Belgium |
| 1990s | 104,517 Deaths | 104,584 Deaths | 67.1 Deaths | Portugal |
| 2000s | 104,039 Deaths | 105,836 Deaths | 1,797 Deaths | Portugal |
| 2010s | 108,062 Deaths | 108,549 Deaths | 487.3 Deaths | Portugal |
| 2020s | 113,400 Deaths | 121,756 Deaths | 8,355 Deaths | Portugal |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher causes of mortality, Belgium or Portugal?
- Portugal, at 118,570 Deaths against 110,377 Deaths in Belgium as of 2023.
- What is the difference in causes of mortality between Belgium and Portugal?
- 8,193 Deaths, with Portugal ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Belgium and Portugal?
- 59 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2023.
- How do Belgium and Portugal rank globally for causes of mortality?
- Belgium ranks 23rd and Portugal ranks 21st 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.