OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to compare the distribution of health insurance treatment cost of and mortality due to cervical cancer according to age-groups. METHODS: Data derive from the database of the National Health Insurance Fund Administration (OEP) containing routinely collected financial data. The study includes all the women who received outpatient and/or inpatient care treatment in 2001 financed from public resources of OEP. Number of deaths due to cervical cancer is from the Central Statistical Office database. We compared the annual out- and inpatient care treatment cost and the annual number of deaths according to age groups. RESULTS: The cost distribution of out- and inpatient care treatment cost of cervical cancer was the following (outp./inp.): 0-24 years: 0.2 %/0.2 %; 25-44 years: 33.2 %/35.8 %; 45-64 years: 47.2 %/47.3 %; 65-74 years: 12.9 %/13.2 %; 75 and over: 6.5 %/3.6 %. The distribution of deaths due to cervical cancer was the following: 0-24 years: 0.0 %; 25-44 years: 16.3 %; 45-64 years: 41.0 %; 65-74 years: 21.7 %; 75 and over: 21.0 %. Summarizing these numbers, women aged 0-64 years accounts for 57.3 % of all deaths due to cervical cancer but they received 80.6 % and 83.3 % of treatment cost of in- and outpatient care. While women aged 65 or over accounts for 42.7 % of deaths and consumed only 19.4 % and 16.7 % of of treatment cost of in- and outpatient care. CONCLUSION: Women in younger age groups received more treatment cost than its mortality would predict, while women in older age groups received less treatment cost of out- and inpatient care. There is a shift between the distribution of treatment cost of and deaths due to cervical cancer in favor of younger age-groups.