Which has higher causes of mortality, Korea or Poland?

Poland, at 408,504 Deaths against 352,511 Deaths in Korea as of 2024.

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

55,993 Deaths, with Poland ahead.

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

37 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.

Korea vs Poland: Causes of mortality

Korea

352,511 Deaths

in 2023

Poland

408,504 Deaths

in 2024

Korea rank

1st

Poland rank

2nd

Causes of mortality over time

Korea
Poland

How they compare

Poland currently reports 408,504 Deaths against 352,511 Deaths in Korea, a difference of 55,993 Deaths.

That makes Poland's figure about 1.2 times Korea's.

Across all 37 years both countries report, Poland has been ahead every year.

Korea ranks 1st and Poland ranks 2nd of 3 groups.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade	Korea	Poland	Difference	Ahead
1980s	192,997 Deaths	377,627 Deaths	184,630 Deaths	Poland
1990s	222,319 Deaths	389,474 Deaths	167,155 Deaths	Poland
2000s	246,233 Deaths	369,902 Deaths	123,669 Deaths	Poland
2010s	275,016 Deaths	391,224 Deaths	116,208 Deaths	Poland
2020s	337,020 Deaths	463,589 Deaths	126,570 Deaths	Poland

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher causes of mortality, Korea or Poland?: Poland, at 408,504 Deaths against 352,511 Deaths in Korea as of 2024.
What is the difference in causes of mortality between Korea and Poland?: 55,993 Deaths, with Poland ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Korea and Poland?: 37 years are reported by both, from 1985 to 2023.
How do Korea and Poland rank globally for causes of mortality?: Korea ranks 1st and Poland ranks 2nd of 3 groups.
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.