INTERNATIONAL STATISTICS 2020
INTERNATIONAL CREMATION STATISTICS 2020
These figures are reproduced as supplied by the Cremation Society's contacts in each country
| Rearrange alphabetically | 2020 | 2019 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| * = provisional | Crematoria | Deaths | Cremations | % of deaths | Deaths | Cremations | % of deaths |
| HONG KONG | 6 | 50,653 | 46,465 | 91.73 | 48,706 | 45,543 | 93.51 |
| SWITZERLAND | 29 | 76,001 | 68,184 | 89.71 | 67,307 | 57,746 | 85.79 |
| SOUTH KOREA | 60 | 305,127 | 273,559 | 89.65* | 295,110 | 260,920 | 88.42 |
| DENMARK | 20 | 54,645 | 46,910 | 85.84 | 53,958 | 46,126 | 85.50 |
| CZECH REPUBLIC | 27 | 129,289 | 108,704 | 84.07 | 112,400 | 88,939 | 79.12 |
| SLOVENIA | 2 | 23,891 | 20,030 | 83.90 | 20,588 | 17,196 | 83.50 |
| SWEDEN | 58 | 98,124 | 81,226 | 82.78 | 88,601 | 73,497 | 82.95 |
| SINGAPORE | 4 | 22,000 | 18,077 | 82.17 | 21,385 | 17,245 | 80.64 |
| THAILAND | 2,077 | 501,438 | 401,150 | 80.00 | 506,211 | 404,969 | 80.00 |
| UNITED KINGDOM | 310 | *691,831 | 542,794 | *78.46 | 606,987 | 472,308 | 77.81 |
| CANADA | 367 | *306,468 | *224,081 | *73.12 | 285,173 | 205,988 | 72.23 |
| GERMANY | 159 | 985,145 | 709,304 | 72.00 | 936,591 | 646,248 | 69.00 |
| HUNGARY | 17 | 140,940 | 97,362 | 69.10 | 129,600 | 86,702 | 66.90 |
| LUXEMBOURG | 1 | 4,649 | 3,113 | 66.96 | 4,283 | 2,810 | 65.61 |
| THE NETHERLANDS | 107 | 168,537 | 111,946 | 66.42 | 151,815 | 101,639 | 66.95 |
| PERU | 8 | 919 | 599 | 65.81 | 1,192 | 871 | 73.07 |
| PORTUGAL | 20 | 6,820 | 4,196 | 61.52 | 6,447 | 3,706 | 57.48 |
| FINLAND | 20 | 54,943 | 33,246 | 60.51 | 53,559 | 30,733 | 57.38 |
| ANDORRA | 1 | 405 | *239 | 59.01 | 297 | 149 | 50.17 |
| USA | 3,251 | *3,358,697 | *1,884,164 | *56.10 | 2,864,849 | 1,563,164 | 54.6 |
| NORWAY | 26 | 40,611 | 18,881 | 46.49 | 40,684 | 17,937 | 44.09 |
| SPAIN | 132 | 493,776 | 223,088 | 45.18 | *417,625 | 186,006 | *44.54 |
| ICELAND | 1 | 2,359 | 976 | 41.37 | 2,378 | 836 | 35.16 |
| ITALY | 87 | 746,146 | 247,840 | 33.22 | 634,432 | 194,669 | 30.68 |
| EIRE | 7 | 31,765 | *8,305 | *26.15 | 31,134 | 7,063 | 22.69 |
| LITHUANIA | 1 | 43,547 | 7,365 | 16.91 | 38,281 | 4,902 | 12.81 |
| MONGOLIA | 2 | 17,040 | 1,211 | 7.11 | 18,403 | 1,463 | 7.95 |
| BULGARIA | 1 | 126,561 | 7,680 | 6.07 | 108,083 | 10,040 | 9.29 |
| GREECE | 1 | 132,966 | 2,844 | 2.14 | 113,419 | 447 | 0.39 |
| ARGENTINA | 136 | 341,72 | *143,525 | *42.00 | |||
| ARUBA | 1 | ||||||
| AUSTRIA | 13 | 90,123 | 81,485 | - | - | ||
| AUSTRALIA | 101 | ||||||
| BAHAMAS | 1 | ||||||
| BELGIUM | 108,745 | 67,768 | 62.32 | ||||
| BRAZIL | 43 | ||||||
| CHINA | 1,745 | ||||||
| COLOMBIA | 18 | ||||||
| COSTA RICA | 2 | ||||||
| CUBA | 9 | ||||||
| EL SALVADOR | 1 | ||||||
| ESTONIA | 2 | ||||||
| FRANCE | 200 | *658,000 | 612,000 | 238,762 | 39.01 | ||
| GHANA | 8 | 80,792 | 5,176 | 6.41 | |||
| GRENADA | 1 | ||||||
| GUATEMALA | 1 | ||||||
| HAITI | 3 | 239 | 176 | ||||
| INDIA | - | ||||||
| INDONESIA | 7 | ||||||
| JAMAICA | 2 | ||||||
| JAPAN | 1,405 | 1,421,926 | 1,421,102 | 99.94 | |||
| LATVIA | 1 | ||||||
| 7 | |||||||
| MAURITIUS | 126 | ||||||
| MEXICO | 70 | ||||||
| NAMIBIA | 1 | 535 | |||||
| NEW ZEALAND | 34,260 | *75.00 | |||||
| PANAMA | 5 | ||||||
| PHILLIPINES | 2 | ||||||
| POLAND | 52 | ||||||
| PUERTO RICO | 3 | ||||||
| ROMANIA | 4 | ||||||
| RUSSIA | 27 | 1,798,307 | *273,563 | 15.21* | |||
| SERBIA | 2 | 16,554 | 3,451 | 20.85 | |||
| SLOVAK REPUBLIC | 3 | ||||||
| SOUTH AFRICA | 33 | ||||||
| SRI LANKA | 45 | ||||||
| SURINAME | 2 | ||||||
| TAIWAN | 38 | ||||||
| TRINIDAD & TOBAGO | 4 | ||||||
| UKRAINE | 3 | ||||||
| UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | 1 | ||||||
| VIETNAM | 2 | ||||||
| ZIMBABWE | 2 | ||||||
