What is the difference in causes of mortality between Estonia and Italy?

650,601 Deaths, with Italy ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Estonia and Italy?

41 years are reported by both, from 1981 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.

Estonia vs Italy: Causes of mortality

Estonia

15,530 Deaths

in 2024

Italy

666,131 Deaths

in 2023

Estonia rank

7th

Italy rank

7th

Causes of mortality over time

Estonia
Italy

How they compare

Italy currently reports 666,131 Deaths against 15,530 Deaths in Estonia, a difference of 650,601 Deaths.

That makes Italy's figure about 42.9 times Estonia's.

Across all 41 years both countries report, Italy has been ahead every year.

Estonia ranks 7th and Italy ranks 7th of 7 groups.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade	Estonia	Italy	Difference	Ahead
1980s	36,839 Deaths	539,457 Deaths	502,618 Deaths	Italy
1990s	27,984 Deaths	556,737 Deaths	528,752 Deaths	Italy
2000s	17,593 Deaths	568,108 Deaths	550,516 Deaths	Italy
2010s	15,416 Deaths	617,980 Deaths	602,564 Deaths	Italy
2020s	16,746 Deaths	710,350 Deaths	693,604 Deaths	Italy

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher causes of mortality, Estonia or Italy?: Italy, at 666,131 Deaths against 15,530 Deaths in Estonia as of 2023.
What is the difference in causes of mortality between Estonia and Italy?: 650,601 Deaths, with Italy ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Estonia and Italy?: 41 years are reported by both, from 1981 to 2023.
How do Estonia and Italy rank globally for causes of mortality?: Estonia ranks 7th and Italy ranks 7th of 7 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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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.