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  2. Cremation by country - Wikipedia

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    Funeral pyre in Ubud, Bali.Cremation is the preferred method of disposal of the dead in Buddhism. [1]Cremation rates vary widely across the world. [2] As of 2019, international statistics report that countries with large Buddhist and Hindu populations like Bhutan, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Thailand and India have a cremation rate ranging from 80 ...

  3. Cremation - Wikipedia

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    The cremation rate varies considerably across countries with Japan reporting a 99.97% cremation rate while Romania reported a rate of 0.5% in 2018. The cremation rate in the United Kingdom has been increasing steadily with the national average rate rising from 34.70% in 1960 to 78.10% in 2019. [80] According to the National Funeral Directors ...

  4. List of countries by mortality rate - Wikipedia

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    The list is based on CIA World Factbook 2023 estimates, unless indicated otherwise. Many developing countries have far higher proportions of young people, and lower proportions of older people, than some developed countries, and thus may have much higher age-specific mortality rates while having lower crude mortality rates.

  5. Cremation rates surge in Italy as cultural norms shift - AOL

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    Cremation is often cheaper than burial due to lower coffin and land costs. Mostly provided by private companies, the maximum price tag in 2023, regulated by Italy's Health Ministry, was 731 euros ...

  6. Majority of Americans are opting for cremation over burials - AOL

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    According to a new report from the National Funeral Directors Association, 50.2 percent to be exact of Americans, said they’d opt for cremation.

  7. Cremation in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Cremation in Japan was originally practiced by monks seeking to emulate the cremation of the Buddha. [1] Virtually all deceased are now cremated in Japan – as of 2012, it had the highest cremation rate in the world of over 99.9%. [ 2 ]

  8. List of countries by intentional homicide rate - Wikipedia

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    The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population per year. For example, a homicide rate of 30 out of 100,000 is presented in the table as "30", and corresponds to 0.03% of the population dying by homicide.

  9. List of countries by number of deaths - Wikipedia

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    Country Number of deaths (2023) China 11,684,177 India 9,507,008 United States 2,975,658 Nigeria 2,675,442 Indonesia 2,117,706 Russia 1,794,857 Pakistan 1,600,313