Bulgaria vs Portugal: Causes of mortality
Causes of mortality over time
- Bulgaria
- Portugal
How they compare
Portugal currently reports 118,570 Deaths against 101,006 Deaths in Bulgaria, a difference of 17,564 Deaths.
That makes Portugal's figure about 1.2 times Bulgaria's.
The two have swapped places 6 times across 55 shared years of data; in 1964 it was Portugal ahead.
Bulgaria ranks 24th and Portugal ranks 21st of 36 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, Bulgaria averaged higher in 3 and Portugal in 4.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Bulgaria | Portugal | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 71,145 Deaths | 97,286 Deaths | 26,141 Deaths | Portugal |
| 1970s | 87,032 Deaths | 95,956 Deaths | 8,925 Deaths | Portugal |
| 1980s | 103,031 Deaths | 96,005 Deaths | 7,026 Deaths | Bulgaria |
| 1990s | 113,192 Deaths | 104,584 Deaths | 8,608 Deaths | Bulgaria |
| 2000s | 111,942 Deaths | 105,836 Deaths | 6,106 Deaths | Bulgaria |
| 2010s | 108,510 Deaths | 108,549 Deaths | 39.5 Deaths | Portugal |
| 2020s | 109,910 Deaths | 121,756 Deaths | 11,846 Deaths | Portugal |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher causes of mortality, Bulgaria or Portugal?
- Portugal, at 118,570 Deaths against 101,006 Deaths in Bulgaria as of 2023.
- What is the difference in causes of mortality between Bulgaria and Portugal?
- 17,564 Deaths, with Portugal ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Bulgaria and Portugal?
- 55 years are reported by both, from 1964 to 2023.
- How do Bulgaria and Portugal rank globally for causes of mortality?
- Bulgaria ranks 24th 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.