Share of deaths from infections — all countries

Share of deaths from infections — Japan

Share of deaths from infections in Japan in 2021 — 9.9%. Ranked 9 in the world out of 185. Since 2000, the indicator has fallen by 2.3 pp.

2021 9.9% +0.3 pp vs 2020
World rank 9of 185
Period maximum 13.6%2010
Period minimum 9.6%2020

Trend over time

2000–2021 · % of total deaths

Share of deaths from infections — Japan, 2000–20218101214200020032006200920122015201820212000: 12.3%2010: 13.6%2015: 13.6%2019: 11%2020: 9.6%2021: 9.9%
Change over the period: −2.3 pp Annual average: -0.11 pp

Comparison, 2021

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Japan

Japan 9.9%
World 27.4%
Share of deaths from infections — Japan, by year Japan All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2021 9.9 +0.3 pp
2020 9.6 −1.3 pp
2019 11
2015 13.6
2010 13.6
2000 12.3

Eastern Asia, 2021

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

About the indicator

The share of deaths from infectious diseases, and also from conditions related to pregnancy and childbirth and from undernutrition, in the total number of deaths during a year. The group is brought together for a reason: all these causes retreat roughly at the same time as incomes rise and health care develops, and their combined share serves as one of the clearest measures of the stage of the epidemiological transition a country is at. The spread is enormous: from a few percent in Europe to half of all deaths in the poorest countries of Africa.

Important: There are no aggregates by country group: a weight by the total number of deaths is needed, and we do not have it. The group takes in not only infections but also maternal mortality and undernutrition, so the share is higher than one might expect from infectious diseases alone.

Source: Global Health Observatory (WHO), license CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.