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 Deaths at ages 75 or over (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Deaths at ages 75 or over (No.) by Place of residence (NUTS - 2024), Sex and Death cause (List OECD adapted); Annual - 0013039
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Mortality by causes of death
First available period 2022
Last available period 2024
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (NUTS - 2024)
  • Sex
  • Death cause (List OECD adapted)
Concepts
  • DEATH:  The permanent disappearance of vital functions.
  • AGE:  The interval of time between the day, month and year of birth and 0:00 a.m. of the reference date. Age is expressed as complete years for adults and children and months, weeks, days, hours or minutes of life, as appropriate, for infants under one year of age.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • UNDERLYING CAUSE OF DEATH:  The disease or injury that initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death or the circumstances of the accident or violence that produced the injury.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 27/02/2026


information presented in 25/3/2026