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

543,900 Deaths, with Japan ahead.

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

34 years are reported by both, from 1990 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.

Germany vs Japan: Causes of mortality

Germany

1.03 million Deaths

in 2023

Japan

1.58 million Deaths

in 2023

Germany rank

5th

Japan rank

3rd

Causes of mortality over time

Germany
Japan

How they compare

Japan currently reports 1.58 million Deaths against 1.03 million Deaths in Germany, a difference of 543,900 Deaths.

That makes Japan's figure about 1.5 times Germany's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 34 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Germany ahead.

Germany ranks 5th and Japan ranks 3rd of 36 countries.

Japan has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Germany	Japan	Difference	Ahead
1990s	882,660 Deaths	891,148 Deaths	8,488 Deaths	Japan
2000s	835,923 Deaths	1.05 million Deaths	215,953 Deaths	Japan
2010s	900,562 Deaths	1.29 million Deaths	392,442 Deaths	Japan
2020s	1.03 million Deaths	1.49 million Deaths	462,492 Deaths	Japan

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher causes of mortality, Germany or Japan?: Japan, at 1.58 million Deaths against 1.03 million Deaths in Germany as of 2023.
What is the difference in causes of mortality between Germany and Japan?: 543,900 Deaths, with Japan ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Germany and Japan?: 34 years are reported by both, from 1990 to 2023.
How do Germany and Japan rank globally for causes of mortality?: Germany ranks 5th and Japan ranks 3rd 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

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.