Causes of mortality in Spain
Spain: Causes of mortality was 433,311 Deaths in 2024. β² Rising
Causes of mortality in Spain, 1960β2024
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Deaths.
Analysis
In 2024, causes of mortality in Spain stood at 433,311 Deaths.
The figure is down 0.6% on the previous year and up 9.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, causes of mortality in Spain peaked at 493,776 Deaths in 2020 and was at its lowest, 256,394 Deaths, in 1961.
Spain ranks 11th of 36 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 271,826 Deaths | 256,394 Deaths | 297,169 Deaths | 10 |
| 1970s | 294,867 Deaths | 280,163 Deaths | 302,869 Deaths | 9 |
| 1980s | 304,861 Deaths | 286,655 Deaths | 324,796 Deaths | 10 |
| 1990s | 345,906 Deaths | 331,515 Deaths | 371,102 Deaths | 10 |
| 2000s | 376,135 Deaths | 360,131 Deaths | 387,355 Deaths | 10 |
| 2010s | 406,328 Deaths | 382,047 Deaths | 427,721 Deaths | 10 |
| 2020s | 455,674 Deaths | 433,311 Deaths | 493,776 Deaths | 5 |
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- Age population, age 25, male, interpolated 256,713 (2025)
- Age population, age 25, female, interpolated 242,742 (2025)
- Age population, age 24, male, interpolated 258,924 (2025)
- Age population, age 24, female, interpolated 243,526 (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is causes of mortality in Spain?
- Causes of mortality in Spain was 433,311 Deaths in 2024, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest causes of mortality recorded in Spain?
- The highest recorded value was 493,776 Deaths in 2020.
- What is the lowest causes of mortality recorded in Spain?
- The lowest recorded value was 256,394 Deaths in 1961.
- How does Spain rank for causes of mortality?
- Spain ranks 11th out of 36 countries with data for 2024.
- Is causes of mortality rising or falling in Spain?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Spain 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.