France vs Spain: Causes of mortality
Causes of mortality over time
- France
- Spain
How they compare
France currently reports 621,705 Deaths against 433,311 Deaths in Spain, a difference of 188,394 Deaths.
That makes France's figure about 1.4 times Spain's.
Across all 63 years both countries report, France has been ahead every year.
France ranks 9th and Spain ranks 11th of 36 countries.
France has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | France | Spain | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 534,972 Deaths | 271,826 Deaths | 263,145 Deaths | France |
| 1970s | 549,182 Deaths | 294,867 Deaths | 254,315 Deaths | France |
| 1980s | 542,795 Deaths | 304,861 Deaths | 237,934 Deaths | France |
| 1990s | 529,382 Deaths | 345,906 Deaths | 183,476 Deaths | France |
| 2000s | 529,249 Deaths | 376,135 Deaths | 153,114 Deaths | France |
| 2010s | 567,965 Deaths | 406,328 Deaths | 161,637 Deaths | France |
| 2020s | 643,304 Deaths | 461,265 Deaths | 182,039 Deaths | France |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher causes of mortality, France or Spain?
- France, at 621,705 Deaths against 433,311 Deaths in Spain as of 2023.
- What is the difference in causes of mortality between France and Spain?
- 188,394 Deaths, with France ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for France and Spain?
- 63 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2023.
- How do France and Spain rank globally for causes of mortality?
- France ranks 9th 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.