What is the difference in causes of mortality between Greece and Portugal?

8,724 Deaths, with Greece ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Greece and Portugal?

58 years are reported by both, from 1961 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.

Greece vs Portugal: Causes of mortality

Greece

127,294 Deaths

in 2023

Portugal

118,570 Deaths

in 2023

Greece rank

19th

Portugal rank

21st

Causes of mortality over time

Greece
Portugal

How they compare

Greece currently reports 127,294 Deaths against 118,570 Deaths in Portugal, a difference of 8,724 Deaths.

That makes Greece's figure about 1.1 times Portugal's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 58 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Portugal ahead.

Greece ranks 19th and Portugal ranks 21st of 36 countries.

Across the 7 decades both report, Greece averaged higher in 3 and Portugal in 4.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Greece	Portugal	Difference	Ahead
1960s	68,782 Deaths	97,576 Deaths	28,794 Deaths	Portugal
1970s	78,824 Deaths	95,956 Deaths	17,133 Deaths	Portugal
1980s	90,432 Deaths	96,005 Deaths	5,573 Deaths	Portugal
1990s	98,972 Deaths	104,584 Deaths	5,612 Deaths	Portugal
2000s	106,195 Deaths	105,836 Deaths	358.57 Deaths	Greece
2010s	117,272 Deaths	108,549 Deaths	8,723 Deaths	Greece
2020s	134,102 Deaths	121,756 Deaths	12,347 Deaths	Greece

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher causes of mortality, Greece or Portugal?: Greece, at 127,294 Deaths against 118,570 Deaths in Portugal as of 2023.
What is the difference in causes of mortality between Greece and Portugal?: 8,724 Deaths, with Greece ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Greece and Portugal?: 58 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2023.
How do Greece and Portugal rank globally for causes of mortality?: Greece ranks 19th and Portugal ranks 21st 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.