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

1.44 million Deaths, with Brazil ahead.

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

44 years are reported by both, from 1980 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 Latvia: Causes of mortality

Brazil

1.47 million Deaths

in 2023

Latvia

26,316 Deaths

in 2024

Brazil rank

4th

Latvia rank

5th

Causes of mortality over time

Brazil
Latvia

How they compare

Brazil currently reports 1.47 million Deaths against 26,316 Deaths in Latvia, a difference of 1.44 million Deaths.

That makes Brazil's figure about 55.7 times Latvia's.

Across all 44 years both countries report, Brazil has been ahead every year.

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

Brazil has averaged higher in every one of the 5 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Brazil	Latvia	Difference	Ahead
1980s	786,460 Deaths	64,762 Deaths	721,699 Deaths	Brazil
1990s	876,908 Deaths	58,477 Deaths	818,431 Deaths	Brazil
2000s	1.02 million Deaths	32,209 Deaths	985,329 Deaths	Brazil
2010s	1.25 million Deaths	28,545 Deaths	1.22 million Deaths	Brazil
2020s	1.60 million Deaths	30,210 Deaths	1.57 million Deaths	Brazil

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher causes of mortality, Brazil or Latvia?: Brazil, at 1.47 million Deaths against 26,316 Deaths in Latvia as of 2023.
What is the difference in causes of mortality between Brazil and Latvia?: 1.44 million Deaths, with Brazil ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and Latvia?: 44 years are reported by both, from 1980 to 2023.
How do Brazil and Latvia rank globally for causes of mortality?: Brazil ranks 4th and Latvia 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.