Causes of mortality in Lithuania
Lithuania: Causes of mortality was 37,453 Deaths in 2024. βΌ Falling
Causes of mortality in Lithuania, 1981β2024
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Deaths.
Analysis
In 2024, causes of mortality in Lithuania stood at 37,453 Deaths.
The figure is up 1.2% on the previous year and down 7.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, causes of mortality in Lithuania peaked at 82,910 Deaths in 1992 and was at its lowest, 37,006 Deaths, in 2023.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 42 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 73,798 Deaths | 70,080 Deaths | 78,338 Deaths | 7 |
| 1990s | 54,715 Deaths | 40,003 Deaths | 82,910 Deaths | 10 |
| 2000s | 42,282 Deaths | 38,919 Deaths | 45,624 Deaths | 10 |
| 2010s | 40,674 Deaths | 38,281 Deaths | 42,120 Deaths | 10 |
| 2020s | 41,727 Deaths | 37,006 Deaths | 47,746 Deaths | 5 |
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More health data for Lithuania
- Life expectancy β Life expectancy difference -8.6 Years (2024)
- Life expectancy β Life expectancy difference 8.6 Years (2024)
- Life expectancy 77.5 Years (2024)
- Infant health: low birthweight 4.3 Percentage of live births (2024)
- Maternal and infant mortality β Perinatal mortality 4.2 Deaths per 1 000 births (2025)
- Healthcare coverage β Health insurance coverage 2,986 Persons (2025)
- Communicable diseases β Communicable disease incidence 21 Cases (2024)
- Hospital beds by function of healthcare 5.36 Per 1 000 inhabitants (2024)
- Hospital beds by sector 5.36 Per 1 000 inhabitants (2024)
- Hospitals 23.89 Per 1 000 000 inhabitants (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is causes of mortality in Lithuania?
- Causes of mortality in Lithuania was 37,453 Deaths in 2024, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest causes of mortality recorded in Lithuania?
- The highest recorded value was 82,910 Deaths in 1992.
- What is the lowest causes of mortality recorded in Lithuania?
- The lowest recorded value was 37,006 Deaths in 2023.
- How does Lithuania rank for causes of mortality?
- Lithuania ranks 6th out of 9 groups with data for 2024.
- Is causes of mortality rising or falling in Lithuania?
- Over the last ten years it is down 7.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Lithuania 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.