# Countries by deaths, 2023

All 236 values come from United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division for 2023, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `deaths`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Deaths of residents in the area during the year.
- Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. Total deaths during the calendar year, estimates 1950 to 2023 (Deaths) (https://population.un.org/wpp/assets/Excel%20Files/1_Indicator%20(Standard)/CSV_FILES/WPP2024_Demographic_Indicators_Medium.csv.gz)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/un-population-division
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. Total deaths during the calendar year, estimates 1950 to 2023 (Deaths). Modelled estimate. https://population.un.org/wpp/assets/Excel%20Files/1_Indicator%20(Standard)/CSV_FILES/WPP2024_Demographic_Indicators_Medium.csv.gz. Retrieved 2026-10-12. CC BY 3.0 IGO.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/deaths/countries

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 11,684,177 |
| 2 | India | 9,507,008 |
| 3 | United States | 2,975,658 |
| 4 | Nigeria | 2,675,442 |
| 5 | Indonesia | 2,117,706 |
| 6 | Russia | 1,794,857 |
| 7 | Pakistan | 1,600,313 |
| 8 | Japan | 1,524,430 |
| 9 | Brazil | 1,494,154 |
| 10 | Germany | 1,034,140 |
| 11 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 901,851 |
| 12 | Bangladesh | 859,075 |
| 13 | Mexico | 799,366 |
| 14 | Ethiopia | 767,018 |
| 15 | Philippines | 716,490 |
| 16 | Italy | 663,448 |
| 17 | Vietnam | 659,980 |
| 18 | United Kingdom | 653,747 |
| 19 | Thailand | 637,306 |
| 20 | Egypt | 625,449 |
| 21 | France | 616,095 |
| 22 | South Africa | 584,015 |
| 23 | Türkiye | 551,598 |
| 24 | Myanmar | 495,470 |
| 25 | Ukraine | 495,421 |
| 26 | Spain | 447,463 |
| 27 | Iran | 423,367 |
| 28 | Poland | 412,310 |
| 29 | Kenya | 399,024 |
| 30 | Tanzania | 385,799 |
| 31 | Argentina | 349,195 |
| 32 | South Korea | 345,502 |
| 33 | Sudan | 320,491 |
| 34 | Canada | 311,824 |
| 35 | Colombia | 282,433 |
| 36 | Romania | 257,119 |
| 37 | North Korea | 255,826 |
| 38 | Angola | 254,482 |
| 39 | Afghanistan | 240,296 |
| 40 | Côte d’Ivoire | 238,741 |
| 41 | Ghana | 237,869 |
| 42 | Uganda | 235,583 |
| 43 | Mozambique | 235,520 |
| 44 | Madagascar | 234,841 |
| 45 | Niger | 231,746 |
| 46 | Uzbekistan | 221,249 |
| 47 | Algeria | 214,259 |
| 48 | Venezuela | 213,955 |
| 49 | Chad | 213,123 |
| 50 | Morocco | 212,624 |
| 51 | Nepal | 205,841 |
| 52 | Taiwan | 205,339 |
| 53 | Mali | 205,047 |
| 54 | Cameroon | 202,882 |
| 55 | Yemen | 188,764 |
| 56 | Iraq | 186,266 |
| 57 | Peru | 185,861 |
| 58 | Australia | 183,924 |
| 59 | Burkina Faso | 183,375 |
| 60 | Malaysia | 181,166 |
| 61 | Somalia | 180,554 |
| 62 | Netherlands | 166,338 |
| 63 | Sri Lanka | 162,453 |
| 64 | Kazakhstan | 136,388 |
| 65 | Guinea | 131,455 |
| 66 | Hungary | 128,063 |
| 67 | Chile | 127,691 |
| 68 | Greece | 127,018 |
| 69 | Zimbabwe | 124,412 |
| 70 | Benin | 124,132 |
| 71 | Belarus | 121,587 |
| 72 | Syria | 118,900 |
| 73 | Portugal | 115,917 |
| 74 | Belgium | 113,791 |
| 75 | Czechia | 113,525 |
| 76 | Malawi | 113,181 |
| 77 | Cuba | 111,819 |
| 78 | Cambodia | 111,340 |
| 79 | South Sudan | 110,339 |
| 80 | Zambia | 107,917 |
| 81 | Bulgaria | 102,980 |
| 82 | Senegal | 100,882 |
| 83 | Sweden | 93,944 |
| 84 | Serbia | 93,928 |
| 85 | Austria | 93,223 |
| 86 | Ecuador | 92,204 |
| 87 | Burundi | 91,963 |
| 88 | Haiti | 90,966 |
| 89 | Bolivia | 87,812 |
| 90 | Guatemala | 87,523 |
| 91 | Rwanda | 82,826 |
| 92 | Saudi Arabia | 77,837 |
| 93 | Tunisia | 74,071 |
| 94 | Switzerland | 73,788 |
| 95 | Togo | 71,661 |
| 96 | Dominican Republic | 70,823 |
| 97 | Sierra Leone | 70,116 |
| 98 | Azerbaijan | 67,842 |
| 99 | Papua New Guinea | 67,700 |
| 100 | Finland | 59,984 |
| 101 | Denmark | 57,275 |
| 102 | Hong Kong | 57,190 |
| 103 | Croatia | 55,029 |
| 104 | Slovakia | 54,167 |
| 105 | Israel | 51,294 |
| 106 | Libya | 48,610 |
| 107 | Central African Republic | 48,529 |
| 108 | Laos | 47,682 |
| 109 | Honduras | 47,670 |
| 110 | Tajikistan | 47,595 |
| 111 | El Salvador | 47,443 |
| 112 | Georgia | 45,077 |
| 113 | Liberia | 44,333 |
| 114 | Norway | 44,143 |
| 115 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 42,861 |
| 116 | Turkmenistan | 42,575 |
| 117 | Kyrgyzstan | 42,200 |
| 118 | Moldova | 41,730 |
| 119 | Lithuania | 40,940 |
| 120 | Paraguay | 39,034 |
| 121 | Palestine | 38,937 |
| 122 | Republic of the Congo | 38,880 |
| 123 | New Zealand | 37,686 |
| 124 | Ireland | 35,550 |
| 125 | Jordan | 34,873 |
| 126 | Puerto Rico | 34,664 |
| 127 | Lebanon | 34,419 |
| 128 | Uruguay | 33,145 |
| 129 | Nicaragua | 31,294 |
| 130 | Costa Rica | 27,861 |
| 131 | Singapore | 27,728 |
| 132 | Mauritania | 27,725 |
| 133 | Latvia | 27,614 |
| 134 | Armenia | 27,579 |
| 135 | Lesotho | 24,612 |
| 136 | Albania | 23,428 |
| 137 | Jamaica | 22,933 |
| 138 | Slovenia | 21,581 |
| 139 | Panama | 21,272 |
| 140 | Eritrea | 20,984 |
| 141 | Mongolia | 20,340 |
| 142 | North Macedonia | 19,863 |
| 143 | Namibia | 18,279 |
| 144 | Gambia | 16,975 |
| 145 | Estonia | 16,693 |
| 146 | Gabon | 15,577 |
| 147 | Guinea-Bissau | 15,181 |
| 148 | Equatorial Guinea | 14,556 |
| 149 | Botswana | 14,197 |
| 150 | Trinidad and Tobago | 12,577 |
| 151 | Mauritius | 11,124 |
| 152 | Timor-Leste | 10,065 |
| 153 | United Arab Emirates | 9,916 |
| 154 | Oman | 9,597 |
| 155 | Cyprus | 9,499 |
| 156 | Eswatini | 9,475 |
| 157 | Kuwait | 8,624 |
| 158 | Djibouti | 8,596 |
| 159 | Fiji | 8,553 |
| 160 | Montenegro | 7,209 |
| 161 | Comoros | 6,119 |
| 162 | Guyana | 6,049 |
| 163 | Bhutan | 4,805 |
| 164 | Réunion | 4,797 |
| 165 | Luxembourg | 4,642 |
| 166 | Suriname | 4,182 |
| 167 | Solomon Islands | 4,113 |
| 168 | Malta | 3,928 |
| 169 | Western Sahara | 3,678 |
| 170 | Guadeloupe | 3,560 |
| 171 | Martinique | 3,502 |
| 172 | Bahamas | 3,480 |
| 173 | Macao | 3,423 |
| 174 | Bahrain | 3,278 |
| 175 | Barbados | 2,996 |
| 176 | Qatar | 2,771 |
| 177 | Cape Verde | 2,642 |
| 178 | Iceland | 2,612 |
| 179 | Brunei | 2,400 |
| 180 | Belize | 2,025 |
| 181 | Curaçao | 1,844 |
| 182 | New Caledonia | 1,818 |
| 183 | Vanuatu | 1,629 |
| 184 | Saint Lucia | 1,544 |
| 185 | French Guiana | 1,502 |
| 186 | Samoa | 1,334 |
| 187 | U.S. Virgin Islands | 1,321 |
| 188 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 1,287 |
| 189 | Maldives | 1,230 |
| 190 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1,165 |
| 191 | Jersey | 1,150 |
| 192 | Guam | 1,144 |
| 193 | Seychelles | 1,051 |
| 194 | Grenada | 1,037 |
| 195 | Aruba | 1,034 |
| 196 | French Polynesia | 1,026 |
| 197 | Kiribati | 934 |
| 198 | Isle of Man | 882 |
| 199 | Micronesia | 860 |
| 200 | Mayotte | 854 |
| 201 | Dominica | 849 |
| 202 | Monaco | 817 |
| 203 | Tonga | 674 |
| 204 | Antigua and Barbuda | 643 |
| 205 | Guernsey | 595 |
| 206 | Bermuda | 573 |
| 207 | Faroe Islands | 564 |
| 208 | Greenland | 551 |
| 209 | Andorra | 491 |
| 210 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 466 |
| 211 | Cayman Islands | 351 |
| 212 | Sint Maarten | 347 |
| 213 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 342 |
| 214 | American Samoa | 334 |
| 215 | Liechtenstein | 300 |
| 216 | Marshall Islands | 271 |
| 217 | San Marino | 270 |
| 218 | Caribbean Netherlands | 258 |
| 219 | Saint Martin | 255 |
| 220 | Gibraltar | 250 |
| 221 | British Virgin Islands | 233 |
| 222 | Northern Mariana Islands | 212 |
| 223 | Palau | 204 |
| 224 | Cook Islands | 132 |
| 225 | Anguilla | 96 |
| 226 | Tuvalu | 90 |
| 227 | Nauru | 89 |
| 227 | Saint Helena | 89 |
| 229 | Wallis and Futuna | 88 |
| 230 | Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 82 |
| 231 | Saint Barthélemy | 70 |
| 232 | Montserrat | 60 |
| 233 | Falkland Islands | 27 |
| 233 | Niue | 27 |
| 235 | Tokelau | 14 |
| 236 | Vatican City | 13 |