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

1.22 million Deaths, with Japan ahead.

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

39 years are reported by both, from 1985 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.

Japan vs Korea: Causes of mortality

Japan

1.58 million Deaths

in 2023

Korea

352,511 Deaths

in 2023

Japan rank

3rd

Korea rank

1st

Causes of mortality over time

Japan
Korea

How they compare

Japan currently reports 1.58 million Deaths against 352,511 Deaths in Korea, a difference of 1.22 million Deaths.

That makes Japan's figure about 4.5 times Korea's.

Across all 39 years both countries report, Japan has been ahead every year.

Japan ranks 3rd and Korea ranks 1st of 36 countries.

Japan has averaged higher in every one of the 5 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Japan	Korea	Difference	Ahead
1980s	767,137 Deaths	192,997 Deaths	574,140 Deaths	Japan
1990s	891,148 Deaths	226,907 Deaths	664,241 Deaths	Japan
2000s	1.05 million Deaths	246,233 Deaths	805,643 Deaths	Japan
2010s	1.29 million Deaths	275,016 Deaths	1.02 million Deaths	Japan
2020s	1.49 million Deaths	337,020 Deaths	1.15 million Deaths	Japan

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher causes of mortality, Japan or Korea?: Japan, at 1.58 million Deaths against 352,511 Deaths in Korea as of 2023.
What is the difference in causes of mortality between Japan and Korea?: 1.22 million Deaths, with Japan ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Japan and Korea?: 39 years are reported by both, from 1985 to 2023.
How do Japan and Korea rank globally for causes of mortality?: Japan ranks 3rd and Korea ranks 1st 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.