Deaths of people under 75 from causes that can mainly be avoided through effective public health and primary prevention (before a disease or injury starts), per 100,000 inhabitants under 75, age-standardised.
Based on the OECD and Eurostat lists of avoidable causes of death (2022 version), which count COVID-19 as preventable, so preventable mortality peaks in 2020 to 2022. A cause on both lists is split half and half. Age-standardised with the 2013 European standard population.
Key facts
Preventable mortality in the European Union (27) was 150.9 per 100,000 people in 2023, according to Eurostat, European Commission.
Latvia had the highest preventable mortality of 27 EU countries in 2023, at 309 per 100,000 people, and Cyprus the lowest, at 89.7 per 100,000 people. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.
Published for 28 places, with figures from 2011 to 2023.
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rank_places {"indicator":"preventable_mortality_rate","level":"country","within":"European Union (27)"}
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