France vs Italy: Causes of mortality
Causes of mortality over time
- France
- Italy
How they compare
Italy currently reports 666,131 Deaths against 621,705 Deaths in France, a difference of 44,426 Deaths.
That makes Italy's figure about 1.1 times France's.
The two have swapped places 7 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1960 it was France ahead.
France ranks 9th and Italy ranks 7th of 36 countries.
Across the 7 decades both report, France averaged higher in 2 and Italy in 5.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | France | Italy | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 534,972 Deaths | 506,110 Deaths | 28,862 Deaths | France |
| 1970s | 548,232 Deaths | 537,779 Deaths | 10,453 Deaths | France |
| 1980s | 542,795 Deaths | 542,972 Deaths | 176.7 Deaths | Italy |
| 1990s | 529,382 Deaths | 556,737 Deaths | 27,355 Deaths | Italy |
| 2000s | 529,249 Deaths | 568,108 Deaths | 38,859 Deaths | Italy |
| 2010s | 567,965 Deaths | 617,980 Deaths | 50,015 Deaths | Italy |
| 2020s | 643,304 Deaths | 710,350 Deaths | 67,045 Deaths | Italy |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher causes of mortality, France or Italy?
- Italy, at 666,131 Deaths against 621,705 Deaths in France as of 2023.
- What is the difference in causes of mortality between France and Italy?
- 44,426 Deaths, with Italy ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for France and Italy?
- 64 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2023.
- How do France and Italy rank globally for causes of mortality?
- France ranks 9th and Italy ranks 7th 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.