INTERNATIONAL STATISTICS 2019
INTERNATIONAL CREMATION STATISTICS 2019
These figures are reproduced as supplied by the Cremation Society's contacts in each country
| Rearrange alphabetically | 2019 | 2018 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| * = provisional | Crematoria | Deaths | Cremations | % of deaths | Deaths | Cremations | % of deaths |
| HONG KONG | 6 | 48,706 | 45,543 | 93.51 | 47,479 | 43,803 | 92.26 |
| SOUTH KOREA | 60 | 295,100 | 259,712 | 88.01 | 298,820 | 259,347 | 86.79 |
| SWITZERLAND | 29 | 67,307 | 57,746 | 85.79 | 66,654 | 54,842 | 82.28 |
| SWEDEN | 58 | 88,601 | 73,497 | 82.95 | 92,185 | 75,669 | 82.10 |
| SINGAPORE | 4 | 21,385 | 17,245 | 80.64 | 21,094 | 16,990 | 80.54 |
| THAILAND | 2,077 | 506,211 | 404,969 | 80.00 | 473,541 | 378,833 | 80.00 |
| CZECH REPUBLIC | 27 | 112,400 | 88,939 | 79.12 | 112,920 | 92,061 | 81.52 |
| UNITED KINGDOM | 307 | *604,723 | 472,302 | *78.10 | 616,014 | 481,308 | 78.13 |
| NEW ZEALAND | 34,260 | *75.00 | 33,225 | *75.00 | |||
| CANADA | 354 | *277,696 | *203,045 | *73.12 | *280,798 | *201,099 | *71.62 |
| PERU | 8 | 1,192 | 871 | 73.07 | 1,474 | 997 | 67.64 |
| GERMANY | 159 | 936,591 | 646,248 | 69.00 | 960,000 | 643,200 | 67.00 |
| THE NETHERLANDS | 99 | 151,815 | 101,642 | 66.95 | 153,249 | 100,089 | 65.31 |
| HUNGARY | 17 | 129,600 | 86,702 | 66.90 | 133,675 | 85,818 | 64.20 |
| LUXEMBOURG | 1 | 4,283 | 2,810 | 65.61 | 4,318 | 2,602 | 60.26 |
| BELGIUM | 19 | 108,745 | 67,768 | 62.32 | 110,645 | 67,252 | 60.78 |
| PORTUGAL | 20 | 6,447 | 3,706 | 57.48 | 7,976 | 3,872 | 48.54 |
| FINLAND | 20 | 53,559 | 30,733 | 57.38 | 54,295 | 29,038 | 53.48 |
| USA | 3,105 | *2,839,965 | *1,550,241 | *54.58 | *2,808,666 | *1,491,043 | *53.10 |
| SPAIN | 132 | 417,625* | 186,006 | 44.54* | 427,721 | 175,618 | 41.06 |
| NORWAY | 26 | 40,684 | 17,937 | 44.09 | 40,840 | 17,429 | 42.68 |
| FRANCE | 185 | 612,000 | 238,762 | 39.01 | 610,000 | 232,577 | 38.13 |
| ICELAND | 1 | 2,378 | 836 | 35.16 | 2,352 | 802 | 34.10 |
| ITALY | 85 | 634,432 | 194,669 | 23.90 | 633,133 | 183,146 | 28.93 |
| EIRE | 7 | 31,134 | 7,063 | 22.69 | 31,116 | 6,583 | 21.16 |
| SERBIA | 2 | 16,554 | 3,451 | 20.85 | 13,182 | 3,404 | 25.82 |
| RUSSIA | 27 | 1,798,307 | 273,563* | 15.21* | 1,828,910 | 220,000* | 12.03* |
| LITHUANIA | 1 | 38,281 | 4,902 | 12.81 | 39,835 | 3,804 | 9.55 |
| MONGOLIA | 2 | 18,403 | 1,463 | 7.95 | 17,864 | 1,364 | 7.64 |
| GHANA | 8 | 80,792 | 5,176 | 6.41 | 76,050 | 5,075 | 6.67 |
| ANDORRA | 1 | 250 | 165 | 66.00 | |||
| ARGENTINA | 110 | 336,823 | 151,571* | 45.00* | |||
| ARUBA | 1 | ||||||
| AUSTRIA | 13 | 81,485 | 83,975 | - | - | ||
| AUSTRALIA | 101 | 158,493 | |||||
| BAHAMAS | 1 | ||||||
| BRAZIL | 43 | ||||||
| BULGARIA | 1 | ||||||
| CHINA | 1,745 | ||||||
| COLOMBIA | 18 | ||||||
| COSTA RICA | 2 | ||||||
| CUBA | 9 | ||||||
| DENMARK | 20 | 55,232 | 46,340 | 83.90 | |||
| EL SALVADOR | 1 | ||||||
| ESTONIA | 2 | ||||||
| GRENADA | 1 | ||||||
| GUATEMALA | 1 | ||||||
| HAITI | 3 | 176 | 167 | ||||
| INDIA | - | ||||||
| INDONESIA | 7 | ||||||
| JAMAICA | 2 | ||||||
| JAPAN | 1,405 | 1,405,209 | 1,404,737 | 99.97 | |||
| LATVIA | 1 | ||||||
| 7 | |||||||
| MAURITIUS | 126 | ||||||
| MEXICO | 70 | ||||||
| NAMIBIA | 1 | 448 | |||||
| PANAMA | 5 | ||||||
| PHILLIPINES | 2 | ||||||
| POLAND | 52 | ||||||
| PUERTO RICO | 3 | ||||||
| ROMANIA | 4 | 263,463 | 1,314 | 0.49 | |||
| SLOVAK REPUBLIC | 3 | ||||||
| SLOVENIA | 2 | 20,485 | 17,188 | 83.90 | |||
| SOUTH AFRICA | 33 | ||||||
| SRI LANKA | 45 | ||||||
| SURINAME | 2 | ||||||
| TAIWAN | 38 | ||||||
| TRINIDAD & TOBAGO | 4 | ||||||
| UKRAINE | 3 | ||||||
| UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | 1 | ||||||
| VIETNAM | 2 | ||||||
| ZIMBABWE | 2 | ||||||
