Causes of mortality by country
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...
What the numbers show
Causes of mortality is currently reported for 44 countries. The highest value is 3.09 million Deaths in United States; the lowest is 2,613 Deaths in Iceland.
The median across all reporting countries is 124,652 Deaths, and the mean is 381,345 Deaths.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 1,183.
Over the past decade 38 countries rose and 6 fell. The largest increase was in Peru (up 62.1%), and the largest decrease in Russia (down 10.6%).
Causes of mortality: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 3.09 million Deaths | 2023 | up 19.0% | rising |
| 1 | Türkiye | 525,814 Deaths | 2023 | up 47.1% | rising |
| 2 | Russia | 1.80 million Deaths | 2019 | down 10.6% | falling |
| 2 | Poland | 408,504 Deaths | 2024 | up 8.5% | rising |
| 3 | Japan | 1.58 million Deaths | 2023 | up 24.2% | rising |
| 3 | Netherlands | 172,165 Deaths | 2024 | up 23.7% | rising |
| 3 | Croatia | 51,275 Deaths | 2023 | up 1.8% | flat |
| 4 | Brazil | 1.47 million Deaths | 2023 | up 21.1% | rising |
| 4 | Lithuania | 37,453 Deaths | 2024 | down 7.0% | falling |
| 5 | Germany | 1.03 million Deaths | 2023 | up 15.5% | rising |
| 5 | Latvia | 26,316 Deaths | 2024 | down 6.7% | falling |
| 6 | Mexico | 778,865 Deaths | 2023 | up 30.7% | rising |
| 6 | Slovenia | 21,506 Deaths | 2024 | up 13.9% | rising |
| 7 | Italy | 666,131 Deaths | 2023 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 7 | Estonia | 15,530 Deaths | 2024 | up 0.4% | falling |
| 8 | United Kingdom | 647,699 Deaths | 2024 | up 13.6% | falling |
| 9 | France | 621,705 Deaths | 2023 | up 11.8% | rising |
| 10 | South Africa | 487,682 Deaths | 2020 | down 10.2% | rising |
| 11 | Spain | 433,311 Deaths | 2024 | up 9.5% | rising |
| 12 | Argentina | 353,373 Deaths | 2023 | up 9.4% | rising |
| 13 | Canada | 326,779 Deaths | 2024 | up 26.3% | rising |
| 14 | Colombia | 268,371 Deaths | 2023 | up 32.2% | rising |
| 15 | Romania | 244,061 Deaths | 2023 | down 1.4% | rising |
| 16 | Australia | 187,268 Deaths | 2024 | up 21.9% | rising |
| 17 | Peru | 158,798 Deaths | 2022 | up 62.1% | rising |
| 18 | Hungary | 127,470 Deaths | 2024 | up 0.9% | rising |
| 19 | Greece | 127,294 Deaths | 2023 | up 13.9% | rising |
| 20 | Chile | 122,010 Deaths | 2023 | up 22.3% | rising |
| 21 | Portugal | 118,570 Deaths | 2023 | up 10.9% | rising |
| 22 | Czechia | 112,211 Deaths | 2024 | up 6.2% | falling |
| 23 | Belgium | 110,377 Deaths | 2023 | up 1.0% | falling |
| 24 | Bulgaria | 101,006 Deaths | 2023 | down 3.2% | rising |
| 25 | Sweden | 91,364 Deaths | 2024 | up 2.6% | rising |
| 26 | Austria | 88,486 Deaths | 2024 | up 13.1% | falling |
| 27 | Switzerland | 71,822 Deaths | 2023 | up 10.6% | rising |
| 28 | Denmark | 58,240 Deaths | 2023 | up 11.6% | rising |
| 29 | Finland | 58,214 Deaths | 2024 | up 11.1% | rising |
| 30 | Israel | 49,654 Deaths | 2023 | up 19.7% | rising |
| 31 | Norway | 43,233 Deaths | 2023 | up 5.0% | rising |
| 32 | Ireland | 35,598 Deaths | 2023 | up 20.7% | falling |
| 33 | New Zealand | 32,787 Deaths | 2020 | up 14.4% | rising |
| 34 | Costa Rica | 28,995 Deaths | 2023 | up 49.7% | rising |
| 35 | Luxembourg | 4,153 Deaths | 2024 | up 12.1% | falling |
| 36 | Iceland | 2,613 Deaths | 2024 | up 27.6% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Korea 352,511 Deaths
- Slovak Republic 53,876 Deaths
About this data
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.