List of countries by cremation rate

This article is a list of countries by cremation rate. Cremation rates vary widely across the world with some countries like Japan having a rate over 95% while other countries like Italy and Poland having less than 10%. Factors include culture and religion; for example, the cremation rate in Muslim, Eastern Orthodox, and Roman Catholic majority countries is much lower due to religious sanctions on cremation.

Asia

India

Almost everyone adhering to Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism cremate their dead making India one of the countries with highest rate of cremation. Rate of cremation is around 85%.

China

China cremates more people each year than any other country, reporting 4,534,000 cremations out of 9,348,453 deaths (a 48.50% rate) in 2008.[1] The cremation rate was 45.6% for 2014 according to Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs.[2]

Japan

Japan has one of the highest cremation rates in the world with the country reporting a cremation rate of 99.85% in 2008.[1]

Taiwan

According to information from Ministry of Interior, there are 92.47％ in 2013 with 144,162 deaths of all 155,908 deaths. [3]

Europe

United Kingdom

The cremation rate in the United Kingdom has been increasing steadily with the national average rate rising from 34.70% in 1960 to 73.44% in 2008.[4]

Scandinavia

Cremation rates in the Nordic countries vary from Finland's and Norway's 36% to Sweden's 70% and Denmark's 76%. Cremation is most common in the older larger cities, which are running out of cemetery plots, and rarest in the countryside and small towns where burial places are readily available. In all countries the cremation rate in large towns is generally between 70% and 90%.

France

Cremation remains a minority practice in rural France where burial places are available, but is increasingly common in urban areas. In 1979 just 1% of funerals involved cremation: in 2012 it was 32%, rising to 45% in Paris.[5]

North America

Canada

The cremation rate in Canada has been increasing steadily with the national average rate rising from 5.89% in 1970 to 68.4% in 2009.[6][7] The rates vary greatly among the provinces with the most recent (1999) province level statistics showing that British Columbia had the highest rate at 74% while Prince Edward Island had the lowest rate at 8.5%.[8]

The projected Canadian rates for 2010:

No Jurisdiction Rate (%)[9]
- Canada 65%+
1 British Columbia 77%
2 Alberta 65%
2 Ontario 65%
2 Nova Scotia 65%
2 Yukon Territories 65%
3 Manitoba 63.1%
4 Saskatchewan 56.6%
5 Prince Edward Island 43.2%
6 Quebec 42.5%
7 New Brunswick 33.3%
8 Newfoundland N/A
8 Northwest Territories N/A
8 Nunavut N/A

United States

The cremation rate in the United States has been increasing steadily with the national average rate rising from 3.56% in 1960 to 40.62% in 2010 and projections from the Cremation Association of North America forecasting a rate of 44.42% in 2015 and 55.65% in 2025.[10][11] The rates vary considerably among the states with the highest rates (over 60%) being reported in the Western United States with the lowest rates (under 25%) being reported in the Southern United States.[12]

The following table lists the 2006 cremation rate for each state including the national average.

2006 US cremation rates
No Jurisdiction Rate (%)[13]
- United States 33.52%
1 Nevada 68.41%
2 Washington 67.57%
3 Hawaii 65.60%
4 Oregon 65.25%
5 Arizona 59.66%
6 Montana 59.40%
7 Colorado 57.83%
8 Maine 55.61%
9 Alaska 55.04%
10 Vermont 54.26%
11 New Hampshire 53.94%
12 Florida 51.78%
13 California 50.50%
14 Wyoming 49.63%
15 Idaho 48.26%
16 New Mexico 47.02%
17 Minnesota 40.46%
18 Michigan 38.62%
19 District of Columbia (capital, not state) 38.26%
20 Connecticut 37.22%
21 Delaware 33.06%
22 Rhode Island 31.77%
23 Wisconsin 31.53%
24 Massachusetts 31.15%
25 Illinois 29.56%
26 Pennsylvania 29.09%
27 Nebraska 28.30%
28 Maryland 28.22%
29 Kansas 27.91%
30 New Jersey 27.76%
31 New York 27.72%
32 Virginia 27.22%
33 North Carolina 25.10%
34 Missouri 24.83%
35 Ohio 24.77%
36 Texas 23.76%
37 Iowa 23.33%
38 Utah 22.77%
39 Oklahoma 22.72%
40 Georgia 22.10%
41 South Carolina 21.94%
42 Indiana 21.88%
43 South Dakota 20.79%
44 Arkansas 20.36%
45 North Dakota 19.26%
46 West Virginia 16.56%
47 Louisiana 16.18%
48 Tennessee 15.99%
49 Kentucky 12.32%
50 Alabama 11.05%
51 Mississippi 9.56%

Oceania

Australia

The cremation rate in Australia is similar to other English speaking countries like Canada. Records show that slightly over 65% of all deaths were cremated in 2008.[1]

New Zealand

New Zealand's rate is slightly higher than Australia's, with 70% of all deaths being cremations in 2008.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "International Cremation Statistics 2008". The Cremation Society of Great Britain. 2010-02-15. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
  2. ↑ "Of the 9.77 million Chinese who died in 2014, 4.46 million, or 45.6 percent, were cremated, the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA)".
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ "National Cremation Statistics 1960-2009". The Cremation Society of Great Britain. 2010-08-31. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
  5. ↑ "Le succès de la crémation en France". Le Point (in French). 2012-10-31. Retrieved 2014-09-24.
  6. ↑ Cremation Association of North America (2003-10-06). "Historical Cremation Data - United States vs. Canada" (PDF). Cremationinfo.com. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
  7. ↑ "Trends and Statistics". National Funeral Directors Association. 2010. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
  8. ↑ Cremation Association of North America (2003-08-25). "Canadian Cremation Figures" (PDF). Cremationinfo.com. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
  9. ↑ http://www.cremationinfo.com/cremationinfo/PDF/WebCanCremFigures.pdf
  10. ↑ "Trends and Statistics". National Funeral Directors Association. 2011. Retrieved 2012-04-22.
  11. ↑ "Industry Statistical Information". Cremation Association of North America. 2010. Retrieved 2012-04-22.
  12. ↑ "U.S. Cremation Statistics". National Funderal Directors Association. 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
  13. ↑ Lucas, Elizabeth (2010-03-10). "State-by-state cremation rates in U.S.". Scrippsnews. Retrieved 2010-09-07.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, January 02, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.