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

1.52 million Deaths, with Japan ahead.

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

38 years are reported by both, from 1985 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.

Croatia vs Japan: Causes of mortality

Croatia

51,275 Deaths

in 2023

Japan

1.58 million Deaths

in 2023

Croatia rank

3rd

Japan rank

3rd

Causes of mortality over time

Croatia
Japan

How they compare

Japan currently reports 1.58 million Deaths against 51,275 Deaths in Croatia, a difference of 1.52 million Deaths.

That makes Japan's figure about 30.7 times Croatia's.

Across all 38 years both countries report, Japan has been ahead every year.

Croatia ranks 3rd and Japan ranks 3rd of 3 groups.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade	Croatia	Japan	Difference	Ahead
1980s	52,428 Deaths	767,137 Deaths	714,708 Deaths	Japan
1990s	51,655 Deaths	891,148 Deaths	839,492 Deaths	Japan
2000s	51,180 Deaths	1.05 million Deaths	1.00 million Deaths	Japan
2010s	51,977 Deaths	1.29 million Deaths	1.24 million Deaths	Japan
2020s	57,003 Deaths	1.46 million Deaths	1.41 million Deaths	Japan

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher causes of mortality, Croatia or Japan?: Japan, at 1.58 million Deaths against 51,275 Deaths in Croatia as of 2023.
What is the difference in causes of mortality between Croatia and Japan?: 1.52 million Deaths, with Japan ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Croatia and Japan?: 38 years are reported by both, from 1985 to 2023.
How do Croatia and Japan rank globally for causes of mortality?: Croatia ranks 3rd and Japan ranks 3rd of 3 groups.
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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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.