Causes of mortality in Poland
Poland: Causes of mortality was 408,504 Deaths in 2024. β² Rising
Causes of mortality in Poland, 1960β2024
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Deaths.
Analysis
Poland recorded 408,504 Deaths for causes of mortality in 2024.
The figure is down 0.1% on the previous year and up 8.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, causes of mortality in Poland peaked at 519,517 Deaths in 2021 and was at its lowest, 224,167 Deaths, in 1960.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 63 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 237,712 Deaths | 224,167 Deaths | 262,823 Deaths | 10 |
| 1970s | 293,208 Deaths | 265,250 Deaths | 325,104 Deaths | 10 |
| 1980s | 369,232 Deaths | 349,388 Deaths | 381,458 Deaths | 10 |
| 1990s | 389,474 Deaths | 381,415 Deaths | 403,951 Deaths | 8 |
| 2000s | 369,902 Deaths | 359,486 Deaths | 384,940 Deaths | 10 |
| 2010s | 391,224 Deaths | 375,501 Deaths | 414,200 Deaths | 10 |
| 2020s | 452,572 Deaths | 408,504 Deaths | 519,517 Deaths | 5 |
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More health data for Poland
- Life expectancy β Life expectancy difference -7.4 Years (2024)
- Life expectancy β Life expectancy difference 7.4 Years (2024)
- Life expectancy 78.5 Years (2024)
- Infant health: low birthweight 5.4 Percentage of live births (2024)
- Maternal and infant mortality β Perinatal mortality 3.7 Deaths per 1 000 births (2024)
- Healthcare coverage β Health insurance coverage 34,349 Persons (2025)
- Communicable diseases β Communicable disease incidence 163 Cases (2024)
- Hospital beds by function of healthcare 6.27 Per 1 000 inhabitants (2024)
- Hospital beds by sector 6.27 Per 1 000 inhabitants (2024)
- Hospitals 34.08 Per 1 000 000 inhabitants (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is causes of mortality in Poland?
- Causes of mortality in Poland was 408,504 Deaths in 2024, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest causes of mortality recorded in Poland?
- The highest recorded value was 519,517 Deaths in 2021.
- What is the lowest causes of mortality recorded in Poland?
- The lowest recorded value was 224,167 Deaths in 1960.
- How does Poland rank for causes of mortality?
- Poland ranks 1st out of 9 groups with data for 2024.
- Is causes of mortality rising or falling in Poland?
- Over the last ten years it is up 8.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Poland 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.