What is the difference in causes of mortality between Brazil and Germany?

432,960 Deaths, with Brazil ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and Germany?

34 years are reported by both, from 1990 to 2023.

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.

Brazil vs Germany: Causes of mortality

Brazil

1.47 million Deaths

in 2023

Germany

1.03 million Deaths

in 2023

Brazil rank

4th

Germany rank

5th

Causes of mortality over time

Brazil
Germany

How they compare

Brazil currently reports 1.47 million Deaths against 1.03 million Deaths in Germany, a difference of 432,960 Deaths.

That makes Brazil's figure about 1.4 times Germany's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 34 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Germany ahead.

Brazil ranks 4th and Germany ranks 5th of 36 countries.

Across the 4 decades both report, Brazil averaged higher in 3 and Germany in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Brazil	Germany	Difference	Ahead
1990s	876,908 Deaths	882,660 Deaths	5,752 Deaths	Germany
2000s	1.02 million Deaths	835,923 Deaths	181,615 Deaths	Brazil
2010s	1.25 million Deaths	900,562 Deaths	346,768 Deaths	Brazil
2020s	1.60 million Deaths	1.03 million Deaths	572,290 Deaths	Brazil

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher causes of mortality, Brazil or Germany?: Brazil, at 1.47 million Deaths against 1.03 million Deaths in Germany as of 2023.
What is the difference in causes of mortality between Brazil and Germany?: 432,960 Deaths, with Brazil ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and Germany?: 34 years are reported by both, from 1990 to 2023.
How do Brazil and Germany rank globally for causes of mortality?: Brazil ranks 4th and Germany ranks 5th 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.