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

110,940 Deaths, with Japan ahead.

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

45 years are reported by both, from 1979 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 Japan: Causes of mortality

Brazil

1.47 million Deaths

in 2023

Japan

1.58 million Deaths

in 2023

Brazil rank

4th

Japan rank

3rd

Causes of mortality over time

Brazil
Japan

How they compare

Japan currently reports 1.58 million Deaths against 1.47 million Deaths in Brazil, a difference of 110,940 Deaths.

That makes Japan's figure about 1.1 times Brazil's.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1979 it was Brazil ahead.

Brazil ranks 4th and Japan ranks 3rd of 36 countries.

Across the 6 decades both report, Brazil averaged higher in 3 and Japan in 3.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Brazil	Japan	Difference	Ahead
1970s	710,702 Deaths	689,664 Deaths	21,038 Deaths	Brazil
1980s	786,460 Deaths	747,091 Deaths	39,369 Deaths	Brazil
1990s	876,908 Deaths	891,148 Deaths	14,240 Deaths	Japan
2000s	1.02 million Deaths	1.05 million Deaths	34,338 Deaths	Japan
2010s	1.25 million Deaths	1.29 million Deaths	45,673 Deaths	Japan
2020s	1.60 million Deaths	1.49 million Deaths	109,798 Deaths	Brazil

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher causes of mortality, Brazil or Japan?: Japan, at 1.58 million Deaths against 1.47 million Deaths in Brazil as of 2023.
What is the difference in causes of mortality between Brazil and Japan?: 110,940 Deaths, with Japan ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and Japan?: 45 years are reported by both, from 1979 to 2023.
How do Brazil and Japan rank globally for causes of mortality?: Brazil ranks 4th and Japan ranks 3rd 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.