INTERNATIONAL STATISTICS 2017
INTERNATIONAL CREMATION STATISTICS 2017
These figures are reproduced as supplied by the Cremation Society's contacts in each country
| Rearrange alphabetically | 2017 | 2016 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| * = provisional | Crematoria | Deaths | Cremations | % of deaths | Deaths | Cremations | % of deaths |
| JAPAN | 1,461 | 1,400,671 | 1,400,282 | 99.97 | 1,376,805 | 1,376,486 | 99.98 |
| TAIWAN | 38 | 171,242 | 165,692 | 96.76 | 172,829 | 166,246 | 96.19 |
| HONG KONG | 6 | 45,883 | 42,809 | 93.30 | 46,662 | 43,556 | 93.34 |
| SWITZERLAND | 29 | 66,554 | 57,694 | 86.69 | 64,586 | 54,643 | 84.59 |
| SOUTH KOREA | 59 | 285,534 | 241,665 | 84.64 | 280,827 | 232,128 | 82.66 |
| CZECH REPUBLIC | 27 | 111,443 | 92,578 | 83.07 | 107,750 | 89,306 | 82.88 |
| DENMARK | 20 | 53,261 | 44,209 | 83.00 | 52,824 | 43,792 | 82.90 |
| SLOVENIA | 2 | 20,509 | 17,001 | 82.90 | 19,689 | 16,241 | 82.49 |
| SWEDEN | 59 | 91,972 | 74,744 | 81.27 | 90,982 | 73,344 | 80.61 |
| SINGAPORE | 4 | 20,874 | 16,808 | 80.52 | 20,017 | 15,968 | 79.77 |
| UNITED KINGDOM | 291 | *607,037 | 467,748 | *77.05 | 597,206 | 459,693 | 76.97 |
| NEW ZEALAND | - | 33,532 | - | *75.00 | 31,179 | *72.00 | |
| CANADA | 269 | *265,712 | *187,240 | *70.50 | 261,646 | 181,207 | 69.26 |
| ANDORRA | 1 | 250 | 165 | 66.00 | 215 | 160 | 74.42 |
| THE NETHERLANDS | 93 | 150,027 | 96,688 | 64.45 | 148,898 | 93,907 | 63.07 |
| HUNGARY | 17 | 131,700 | 84,550 | 64.20 | 131,220 | 83,330 | 63.50 |
| GERMANY | 164 | 932,272 | 578,008 | 62.00 | 947,000 | 544,335 | 57.48 |
| BELGIUM | 17 | 108,666 | 65,221 | 60.02 | 108,056 | 63,380 | 58.65 |
| LUXEMBOURG | 1 |
4,263 |
2,371 | 55.62 | 3,967 | 2,187 |
55.13 |
| PORTUGAL | 20 | 6,595 | 3,637 | 55.14 | 6,699 | 3,680 | 54.93 |
| FINLAND | 21 | 53,217 | 28,336 | 53.25 | 53,923 | 27,483 | 50.97 |
| USA | 2,913 | *2,716,817 | *1,400,625 | *51.55 |
2,755,639 |
1,384,709 | 50.25 |
| PERU | 8 | 1,723 | 870 | 50.49 | 1,533 | 850 | 55.45 |
| NORWAY | 26 | 40,774 | 16,903 | 41.46 | 40,726 | 16,703 | 41.04 |
| FRANCE | 185 | 603,000 | 221,830 | 36.79 | 587,000 | 231,951 | 39.51 |
| ICELAND | 1 | 2,240 | 790 | 35.27 | 2,309 | 718 | 31.10 |
| ITALY | 79 | 649,061 | 155,155 | 23.90 | 615,261 | 141,553 | 23.01 |
| SERBIA | 2 | 16,729 | 3,357 | 20.07 | 15,995 | 3,090 | 19.32 |
| EIRE | 7 | 30,484 | 5,978 | 19.61 | 30,390 | 5,498 | 18.09 |
| RUSSIA | 23 | 1,824,340 | 180,000 | 9.87* | |||
| LITHUANIA | 1 | 40,142 | 3,758 | 9.36 | 41,106 | 3,812 | 9.27 |
| MONGOLIA | 2 | 17,357 | 1,414 | 8.15 | 17,763 | 1,576 | 8.87 |
| GHANA | 8 | 70,010 | 5,016 | 7.16 | 72,664 | 5,120 | 7.05 |
| ROMANIA | 4 | 260,886 | 1,177 | 0.45 | 256,501 | 1,083 | 0.42 |
| ARGENTINA | 95 | ||||||
| ARUBA | 1 | ||||||
| AUSTRIA | 13 | 80,669 | 36,008 | 44.64 | |||
| AUSTRALIA | 82 | ||||||
| BAHAMAS | 1 | ||||||
| BRAZIL | 43 | ||||||
| BULGARIA | 1 | ||||||
| CHINA | 1,745 | ||||||
| COLOMBIA | 18 | 4,599 | 4,295 | ||||
| COSTA RICA | 2 | ||||||
| CUBA | 9 | 99,401 | 9,206 | 9.26 | |||
| EL SALVADOR | 1 | ||||||
| ESTONIA | 2 | ||||||
| GRENADA | 1 | ||||||
| GUATEMALA | 1 | ||||||
| HAITI | 3 | 167 | 196 | ||||
| INDIA | - | ||||||
| INDONESIA | 7 | ||||||
| JAMAICA | 2 | ||||||
| LATVIA | 1 | ||||||
| MALAYSIA | 7 | ||||||
| MAURITIUS | 126 | ||||||
| MEXICO | 70 | ||||||
| NAMIBIA | 1 | 684 | 477 | ||||
| PANAMA | 5 | ||||||
| PHILLIPINES | 2 | ||||||
| POLAND | 52 | 388,000 | *24.00 | ||||
| PUERTO RICO | 3 | ||||||
| SLOVAK REPUBLIC | 3 | ||||||
| SOUTH AFRICA | 33 | ||||||
| SPAIN | 132 | 15,532 | 7,817 | 50.33 | |||
| SRI LANKA | 45 | ||||||
| SURINAME | 2 | ||||||
| THAILAND | 2,077 | 480,434 | 384,347 | 80.00 | |||
| TRINIDAD & TOBAGO | 4 | ||||||
| UKRAINE | 3 | ||||||
| UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | 1 | ||||||
| VIETNAM | 2 | ||||||
| ZIMBABWE | 2 | 4,791 | 124 | 2.59 | |||
