Colombia vs Spain: Causes of mortality
Causes of mortality over time
- Colombia
- Spain
How they compare
Spain currently reports 433,311 Deaths against 268,371 Deaths in Colombia, a difference of 164,940 Deaths.
That makes Spain's figure about 1.6 times Colombia's.
Across all 55 years both countries report, Spain has been ahead every year.
Colombia ranks 14th and Spain ranks 11th of 36 countries.
Spain has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Colombia | Spain | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 174,389 Deaths | 271,826 Deaths | 97,438 Deaths | Spain |
| 1970s | 155,221 Deaths | 293,392 Deaths | 138,171 Deaths | Spain |
| 1980s | 149,534 Deaths | 312,777 Deaths | 163,243 Deaths | Spain |
| 1990s | 169,607 Deaths | 345,906 Deaths | 176,299 Deaths | Spain |
| 2000s | 191,578 Deaths | 376,135 Deaths | 184,558 Deaths | Spain |
| 2010s | 216,027 Deaths | 406,328 Deaths | 190,302 Deaths | Spain |
| 2020s | 304,841 Deaths | 461,265 Deaths | 156,424 Deaths | Spain |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher causes of mortality, Colombia or Spain?
- Spain, at 433,311 Deaths against 268,371 Deaths in Colombia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in causes of mortality between Colombia and Spain?
- 164,940 Deaths, with Spain ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Colombia and Spain?
- 55 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2023.
- How do Colombia and Spain rank globally for causes of mortality?
- Colombia ranks 14th and Spain ranks 11th 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.