International Statistics 2021

international cremation statistics map 2021

These figures are reproduced as supplied by the Cremation Society's contacts in each country and where shown are the latest figures obtainablePlease click on the name of each country for more detailed information on the figures given

Rearrange by % deaths (2021)	2021				2020
* = provisional	Crematoria	Deaths	Cremations	% of deaths	Deaths	Cremations	% of deaths
ANDORRA	1	374	218	58.29	*405	*239	*59.01
ARGENTINA	187	-	-	-	376,219	*161,774	*43.00
ARUBA	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
AUSTRALIA	*101	-	-	-	-	-	-
AUSTRIA	15	90,054	-	-	90,123	-	-
BAHAMAS	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
BELGIUM	21	112,390	73,209	65.14	126,850	80,320	63.32
BRAZIL	43	-	-	-	-	-	-
BRITISH ISLANDS	315	*669,327	525,092	78.45	691,831	542,789	78.46
BULGARIA	3	148,995	10,078	6.76	126,561	7,680	6.07
CANADA	361	309,718	231,542	74.76	*306,468	*224,081	73.12
CHINA	*1,745	-	-	-	-	-	-
COLOMBIA	18	-	-	-	-	-	-
COSTA RICA	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
CUBA	9	-	-	-	-	-	-
CZECH REPUBLIC	28	139,891	118,393	84.63	129,289	108,704	84.07
DENMARK	20	57,152	48,951	85.65	54,645	46,910	85.84
EIRE	7	33,055	8,998	27.22	31,765	*8,305	*26.15
EL SALVADOR	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
ESTONIA	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
FINLAND	20	57,343	34,861	60.79	54,943	33,246	60.51
FRANCE	206	659,000	-	-	669,000	269,700	*40.31
GERMANY	159	1,120,000	817,600	73.00	985,145	709,304	72.00
GHANA	8	-	-	-	-	-	-
GREECE	1	143,586	3,971	2.77	132,966	2,844	2.14
GRENADA	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
GUATEMALA	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
HAITI	3		240			239
HONG KONG	6	51,536	48,106	93.34	50,653	46,465	91.73
HUNGARY	17	155,500	108,800	69.97	140,900	97,362	69.10
ICELAND	1	2,307	936	40.57	2,359	976	41.37
INDIA	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
INDONESIA	7	-	-	-	-	-	-
ITALY	87	709,035	244,186	34.44	746,146	247,840	33.22
JAMAICA	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
JAPAN	*1,405	-	-	-	1,430,233	1,429,840	99.97
LATVIA	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
LITHUANIA	1	47,746	9,081	19.02	43,547	7,365	16.91
LUXEMBOURG	1	-	3,119	-	4,649	3,113	66.96
MALAYSIA	7	-	-	-	-	-	-
MAURITIUS	126	-	-	-	-	-	-
MEXICO	70	-	-	-	-	-	-
MONGOLIA	2	19,929	2,828	14.19	17,040	1,211	7.11
NAMIBIA	1	-	1107	-	-	535	-
NEW ZEALAND	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
NORWAY	25	42,002	19,431	46.26	40,611	18,881	46.49
PANAMA	5	-	-	-	-	-	-
PERU	8	894	565	63.20	919	599	65.18
PHILLIPINES	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
POLAND	52	-	-	-	-	-	-
PORTUGAL	20	6,883	4,047	58.80	6,820	4,196	61.52
PUERTO RICO	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
ROMANIA	4	-	-	-	-	-	-
RUSSIA	27	-	-	-	2,138,586	625,000	29.22
SERBIA	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
SINGAPORE	4	24,220	19,868	82.03	22,000	18,077	82.17
SLOVAK REPUBLIC	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
SLOVENIA	2	24,016	20,291	84.49	23,891	20,030	83.90
SOUTH AFRICA	33	-	-	-	-	-	-
SOUTH KOREA	60	317,527	287,803	*90.64	305,127	273,559	89.65*
SPAIN	132	-	-	-	493,776	223,088	45.18
SRI LANKA	45	-	-	-	-	-	-
SURINAME	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
SWEDEN	58	91,958	77,497	84.27	98,124	81,226	82.78
SWITZERLAND	29	71,074	*57,091	80.33	76,001	68,184	89.71
TAIWAN	38	-	-	-	-	-	-
THAILAND	2,077	563,650	450,920	80.00	501,438	401,150	80.00
THE NETHERLANDS	108	170,802	115,145	67.41	168,537	111,946	66.42
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO	4	-	-	-	-	-	-
UKRAINE	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
USA	3,333	3,388,138	1,949,074	57.53	3,358,697	1,884,164	56.10
VIETNAM	2	-	-	-	-	-	- -
ZIMBABWE	2	-	-	-	-	-	-