What is the difference in causes of mortality between Israel and New Zealand?

16,867 Deaths, with Israel ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Israel and New Zealand?

46 years are reported by both, from 1975 to 2020.

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.

Israel vs New Zealand: Causes of mortality

Israel

49,654 Deaths

in 2023

New Zealand

32,787 Deaths

in 2020

Israel rank

30th

New Zealand rank

33rd

Causes of mortality over time

Israel
New Zealand

How they compare

Israel currently reports 49,654 Deaths against 32,787 Deaths in New Zealand, a difference of 16,867 Deaths.

That makes Israel's figure about 1.5 times New Zealand's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 46 shared years of data; in 1975 it was New Zealand ahead.

Israel ranks 30th and New Zealand ranks 33rd of 36 countries.

Across the 6 decades both report, Israel averaged higher in 5 and New Zealand in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Israel	New Zealand	Difference	Ahead
1970s	24,883 Deaths	25,316 Deaths	433.2 Deaths	New Zealand
1980s	27,971 Deaths	26,519 Deaths	1,452 Deaths	Israel
1990s	34,022 Deaths	27,320 Deaths	6,702 Deaths	Israel
2000s	38,454 Deaths	28,256 Deaths	10,198 Deaths	Israel
2010s	42,898 Deaths	31,463 Deaths	11,435 Deaths	Israel
2020s	48,797 Deaths	32,787 Deaths	16,010 Deaths	Israel

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher causes of mortality, Israel or New Zealand?: Israel, at 49,654 Deaths against 32,787 Deaths in New Zealand as of 2023.
What is the difference in causes of mortality between Israel and New Zealand?: 16,867 Deaths, with Israel ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Israel and New Zealand?: 46 years are reported by both, from 1975 to 2020.
How do Israel and New Zealand rank globally for causes of mortality?: Israel ranks 30th and New Zealand ranks 33rd 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.