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

1.17 million Deaths, with Japan ahead.

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

62 years are reported by both, from 1960 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 Poland: Causes of mortality

Japan

1.58 million Deaths

in 2023

Poland

408,504 Deaths

in 2024

Japan rank

3rd

Poland rank

2nd

Causes of mortality over time

Japan
Poland

How they compare

Japan currently reports 1.58 million Deaths against 408,504 Deaths in Poland, a difference of 1.17 million Deaths.

That makes Japan's figure about 3.9 times Poland's.

Across all 62 years both countries report, Japan has been ahead every year.

Japan ranks 3rd and Poland ranks 2nd of 36 countries.

Japan has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Japan	Poland	Difference	Ahead
1960s	688,247 Deaths	237,712 Deaths	450,535 Deaths	Japan
1970s	698,226 Deaths	293,208 Deaths	405,018 Deaths	Japan
1980s	747,091 Deaths	369,232 Deaths	377,859 Deaths	Japan
1990s	882,699 Deaths	389,474 Deaths	493,225 Deaths	Japan
2000s	1.05 million Deaths	369,902 Deaths	681,974 Deaths	Japan
2010s	1.29 million Deaths	391,224 Deaths	901,779 Deaths	Japan
2020s	1.49 million Deaths	463,589 Deaths	1.03 million Deaths	Japan

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher causes of mortality, Japan or Poland?: Japan, at 1.58 million Deaths against 408,504 Deaths in Poland as of 2023.
What is the difference in causes of mortality between Japan and Poland?: 1.17 million Deaths, with Japan ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Japan and Poland?: 62 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2023.
How do Japan and Poland rank globally for causes of mortality?: Japan ranks 3rd and Poland ranks 2nd 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.