International Statistics 2022

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 (2022)	2022				2021
* = provisional	Crematoria	Deaths	Cremations	% of deaths	Deaths	Cremations	% of deaths
ANDORRA	1	394	282	71.57	374	218	58.29
ARGENTINA	203	-	-	-	436,799	*209,664	*48.00
ARUBA	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
AUSTRALIA	*101	-	-	-	-	-	-
AUSTRIA	15	91,962	-	-	90,054	-	-
BAHAMAS	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
BELGIUM	21	116,564	76,244	65.41	112,390	73,209	65.14
BRAZIL	*43	-	-	-	-	-	-
BRITISH ISLANDS	322	*659,718	*526,677	*79.83	669,764	525,116	78.40
BULGARIA	3	116,432	7,554	6.49	148,995	10,078	6.76
CANADA	339	334,506	248,805	74.38	309,718	231,542	74.76
CHINA	*1,745	-	-	-	-	-	-
COLOMBIA	18	-	-	-	-	-	-
COSTA RICA	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
CUBA	9	-	-	-	-	-	-
CZECH REPUBLIC	28	120,207	103,722	86.29	139,891	118,393	84.63
DENMARK	20	59,246	51,435	86.82	57,152	48,951	85.65
EIRE	7	35,477	9,493	26.76	33,055	8,998	27.22
EL SALVADOR	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
ESTONIA	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
FINLAND	22	62,886	39,235	62.39	57,343	34,861	60.79
FRANCE	216	*667,000	-	-	659,000	272,014	41.28
GERMANY	164	1,060,000	779,100	73.50	1,025,000	748,250	73.00
GHANA	8	-	-	-	-	-	-
GREECE	1	143,227	4,905	3.42	143,586	3,971	2.77
GRENADA	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
GUATEMALA	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
HAITI	3		232			240
HONG KONG	6	61,557	59,685	96.96	51,536	48,106	93.34
HUNGARY	17	135,700	99,794	73.54	155,500	108,800	69.97
ICELAND	1	2,676	1,107	41.37	2,307	936	40.57
INDIA	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
INDONESIA	7	-	-	-	-	-	-
ITALY	91	713,499	259,915	36.43	709,035	244,186	34.44
JAMAICA	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
JAPAN	*1,373	-	-	-	1,512,973	1,512,511	99.97
LATVIA	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
LITHUANIA	4	42,884	8,287	19.32	47,746	9,081	19.02
LUXEMBOURG	1	-	3,120	-	4,489	3,119	69.48
MALAYSIA	7	-	-	-	-	-	-
MAURITIUS	126	-	-	-	-	-	-
MEXICO	70	-	-	-	-	-	-
MONGOLIA	2	17,981	1,609	8.95	19,929	2,828	14.19
NAMIBIA	1	-	-	-	-	1,107	-
NEW ZEALAND	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
NORWAY	25	45,774	21,911	47.87	42,002	19,431	46.26
PANAMA	5	-	-	-	-	-	-
PERU	8	596	302	50.67	894	565	63.20
PHILLIPINES	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
POLAND	52	-	-	-	-	-	-
PORTUGAL	20	6,456	3,814	59.08	6,883	4,047	58.80
PUERTO RICO	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
ROMANIA	4	-	-	-	-	-	-
RUSSIA	*27	-	-	-	-	-	-
SERBIA	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
SINGAPORE	4	26,829	21,793	81.23	24,220	19,868	82.03
SLOVAK REPUBLIC	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
SLOVENIA	2	22,492	19,227	85.48	24, 016	20,291	84.49
SOUTH AFRICA	33	-	-	-	-	-	-
SOUTH KOREA	60	317,974	287,704	*90.48	317,680	288, 562	90.83
SPAIN	132	-	-	-	450,687	202,494	44.93
SRI LANKA	45	-	-	-	-	-	-
SURINAME	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
SWEDEN	58	94,737	78,518	82.88	91,958	77,497	84.27
SWITZERLAND	29	-	-	-	*71,074	*57,091	80.33
TAIWAN	38	-	-	-	-	-	-
THAILAND	2,077	595,965	476,772	80.00	563,650	450,920	80.00
THE NETHERLANDS	108	169,937	114,075	67.13	170,802	115,145	67.41
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO	4	-	-	-	-	-	-
UKRAINE	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
USA	3,451	3,306,612	1,949,972	58.97	3,388,138	1,949,074	57.53
VIETNAM	2	-	-	-	-	-	- -
ZIMBABWE	2	-	-	-	-	-	-