Which has higher causes of mortality, Korea or Russian Federation?

Russian Federation, at 1.80 million Deaths against 352,511 Deaths in Korea as of 2019.

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

1.45 million Deaths, with Russian Federation ahead.

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

35 years are reported by both, from 1985 to 2019.

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 Russian Federation: Causes of mortality

Korea

352,511 Deaths

in 2023

Russian Federation

1.80 million Deaths

in 2019

Korea rank

1st

Russian Federation rank

2nd

Causes of mortality over time

Korea
Russian Federation

How they compare

Russian Federation currently reports 1.80 million Deaths against 352,511 Deaths in Korea, a difference of 1.45 million Deaths.

That makes Russian Federation's figure about 5.1 times Korea's.

Across all 35 years both countries report, Russian Federation has been ahead every year.

Korea ranks 1st and Russian Federation ranks 2nd of 3 groups.

Russian Federation has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Korea	Russian Federation	Difference	Ahead
1980s	192,997 Deaths	3.12 million Deaths	2.93 million Deaths	Russian Federation
1990s	226,907 Deaths	3.79 million Deaths	3.56 million Deaths	Russian Federation
2000s	246,233 Deaths	2.21 million Deaths	1.96 million Deaths	Russian Federation
2010s	275,016 Deaths	1.89 million Deaths	1.61 million Deaths	Russian Federation

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher causes of mortality, Korea or Russian Federation?: Russian Federation, at 1.80 million Deaths against 352,511 Deaths in Korea as of 2019.
What is the difference in causes of mortality between Korea and Russian Federation?: 1.45 million Deaths, with Russian Federation ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Korea and Russian Federation?: 35 years are reported by both, from 1985 to 2019.
How do Korea and Russian Federation rank globally for causes of mortality?: Korea ranks 1st and Russian Federation 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.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Korea vs Russian Federation: Causes of mortality. Statizoid, drawing on Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Retrieved 27 August 2026, from https://health.statizoid.com/compare/causes-of-mortality/korea/russian-federation/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under OECD Terms and Conditions (attribution required); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://health.statizoid.com/compare/causes-of-mortality/korea/russian-federation/">Korea vs Russian Federation: Causes of mortality</a> — Statizoid

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.