Causes of mortality in Brazil
Brazil: Causes of mortality was 1.47 million Deaths in 2023. β² Rising
Causes of mortality in Brazil, 1979β2023
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Deaths.
Analysis
In 2023, causes of mortality in Brazil stood at 1.47 million Deaths.
That represents a change of down 5.1% on the previous year and up 21.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, causes of mortality in Brazil peaked at 1.83 million Deaths in 2021 and was at its lowest, 710,702 Deaths, in 1979.
Brazil ranks 4th of 36 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 45 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 710,702 Deaths | 710,702 Deaths | 710,702 Deaths | 1 |
| 1980s | 786,460 Deaths | 740,966 Deaths | 833,369 Deaths | 10 |
| 1990s | 876,908 Deaths | 802,292 Deaths | 937,521 Deaths | 10 |
| 2000s | 1.02 million Deaths | 945,439 Deaths | 1.10 million Deaths | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.25 million Deaths | 1.14 million Deaths | 1.35 million Deaths | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.60 million Deaths | 1.47 million Deaths | 1.83 million Deaths | 4 |
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- Un projection of annual infant deaths 3,476 (2100)
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- Age population, age 25, male, interpolated 1.64 million (2025)
- Age population, age 25, female, interpolated 1.60 million (2025)
- Age population, age 24, male, interpolated 1.61 million (2025)
- Age population, age 24, female, interpolated 1.58 million (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is causes of mortality in Brazil?
- Causes of mortality in Brazil was 1.47 million Deaths in 2023, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest causes of mortality recorded in Brazil?
- The highest recorded value was 1.83 million Deaths in 2021.
- What is the lowest causes of mortality recorded in Brazil?
- The lowest recorded value was 710,702 Deaths in 1979.
- How does Brazil rank for causes of mortality?
- Brazil ranks 4th out of 36 countries with data for 2023.
- Is causes of mortality rising or falling in Brazil?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Brazil data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Causes of mortality. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.