Countries by deaths

India had the highest deaths of 236 countries in 2021, at 13.09 million. Vatican City had the lowest, at 12. The median was 44,887 and the figure for the World was 69.73 million. Source: the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division.

Highest13,093,785India

Lowest12Vatican City

Median44,887236 countries

World69,728,100History

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count, 2021. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: UN WPP, World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. Total deaths during the calendar year, estimates 1950 to 2023 (Deaths). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Top 40 countries, 2021

count. Source: UN WPP, World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. Total deaths during the calendar year, estimates 1950 to 2023 (Deaths). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2021 count	Change on 2020
1	India Estimated	13,093,785	+29.4%
2	China Estimated	10,759,526	+3.3%
3	United States Estimated	3,492,881	+3.2%
4	Indonesia Estimated	2,779,181	+14.4%
5	Nigeria Estimated	2,689,256	-0.1%
6	Russia Estimated	2,439,514	+13%
7	Brazil Estimated	1,753,027	+12%
8	Pakistan Estimated	1,731,352	+0.9%
9	Japan Estimated	1,485,405	+4.4%
10	Mexico Estimated	1,150,761	+7.7%
11	Bangladesh Estimated	1,059,070	+4%
12	Germany Estimated	956,992	-3.4%
13	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	929,997	+4.1%
14	Philippines Estimated	903,857	+38.3%
15	Ethiopia Estimated	810,764	+6.5%
16	Egypt Estimated	780,677	+11.5%
17	Ukraine Estimated	759,006	+17.7%
18	South Africa Estimated	733,895	+25.1%
19	Italy Estimated	674,153	-10.2%
20	United Kingdom Estimated	662,086	-4.3%
21	Vietnam Estimated	658,187	+15.4%
22	France Estimated	654,169	-1.6%
23	Türkiye Estimated	640,533	+13.1%
24	Iran Estimated	564,941	0%
25	Thailand Estimated	555,450	+1.8%
26	Myanmar Estimated	524,223	+9.9%
27	Poland Estimated	502,542	+9.4%
28	Spain Estimated	457,182	-7.7%
29	Argentina Estimated	440,644	+15.4%
30	Kenya Estimated	432,376	+4.3%
31	Colombia Estimated	402,788	+20.2%
32	Tanzania Estimated	382,677	+6.2%
33	Romania Estimated	336,901	+11.9%
34	Sudan Estimated	336,272	+5.9%
35	South Korea Estimated	328,052	+3.4%
36	Afghanistan Estimated	320,099	+8.3%
37	Canada Estimated	311,188	-0.3%
38	Peru Estimated	308,258	+26.6%
39	Mozambique Estimated	266,433	+8.1%
40	Angola Estimated	263,101	+3.1%
41	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	248,325	+1.1%
42	North Korea Estimated	248,321	-2.3%
43	Uganda Estimated	245,138	+2.6%
44	Ghana Estimated	243,300	+2.6%
45	Morocco Estimated	237,305	+0.1%
46	Madagascar Estimated	235,762	+3.5%
47	Niger Estimated	233,995	+3.6%
48	Nepal Estimated	228,750	+8.6%
49	Cameroon Estimated	222,281	+4.6%
50	Algeria Estimated	222,028	-15.8%
51	Venezuela Estimated	222,005	+8.4%
52	Yemen Estimated	221,113	+4.9%
53	Chad Estimated	216,831	+2.1%
54	Uzbekistan Estimated	216,433	-0.4%
55	Malaysia Estimated	212,599	+24.6%
56	Mali Estimated	207,692	+0.7%
57	Iraq Estimated	197,242	-6.3%
58	Somalia Estimated	195,162	+8.2%
59	Kazakhstan Estimated	190,427	+13.9%
60	Taiwan Estimated	186,219	+6.9%
61	Burkina Faso Estimated	185,533	+3.8%
62	Australia Estimated	171,431	+4.6%
63	Netherlands Estimated	170,893	+1.4%
64	Cuba Estimated	169,651	+45.9%
65	Sri Lanka Estimated	169,414	+10.2%
66	Hungary Estimated	158,981	+13.1%
67	Chile Estimated	148,945	+4%
68	Bulgaria Estimated	148,512	+19.7%
69	Belarus Estimated	146,534	-0.7%
70	Bolivia Estimated	140,749	+9.9%
71	Czechia Estimated	140,177	+8.5%
72	Zimbabwe Estimated	138,736	+9.8%
73	Serbia Estimated	135,632	+18%
74	Guinea Estimated	134,516	+1.4%
75	Greece Estimated	133,678	+8.8%
76	Zambia Estimated	129,518	+8.6%
77	Ecuador Estimated	125,685	-4.2%
78	Malawi Estimated	125,436	+3.8%
79	Benin Estimated	125,401	+4.6%
80	Portugal Estimated	122,738	+1.2%
81	Guatemala Estimated	121,582	+20%
82	Cambodia Estimated	115,876	+9.3%
83	Belgium Estimated	112,310	-11.7%
84	South Sudan Estimated	109,069	+6.3%
85	Senegal Estimated	108,608	+6.9%
86	Syria Estimated	107,361	+0.8%
87	Central African Republic Estimated	106,791	+60.2%
88	Haiti Estimated	101,697	+9.2%
89	Tunisia Estimated	100,576	+26.3%
90	Burundi Estimated	94,725	+4.4%
91	Sweden Estimated	91,914	-6.6%
92	Azerbaijan Estimated	87,420	-0.7%
93	Austria Estimated	85,122	+1.2%
94	Rwanda Estimated	82,603	+3.8%
95	Saudi Arabia Estimated	81,908	+7.4%
96	Dominican Republic Estimated	77,714	+9.1%
97	Slovakia Estimated	74,409	+24.6%
98	Togo Estimated	73,624	+1.3%
99	Sierra Leone Estimated	72,819	-1.2%
100	Papua New Guinea Estimated	72,384	+8.1%
101	Switzerland Estimated	71,444	-6.5%
102	Bosnia and Herzegovina Estimated	59,664	+19.2%
103	Paraguay Estimated	59,623	+48.1%
104	Honduras Estimated	58,929	+15.1%
105	Georgia Estimated	58,121	+18.1%
106	Croatia Estimated	57,804	+1.3%
107	Finland Estimated	57,576	+3.9%
108	Denmark Estimated	57,038	+4.3%
109	Hong Kong Estimated	54,800	+0.3%
110	El Salvador Estimated	54,503	+2.1%
111	Tajikistan Estimated	53,673	-5.9%
112	Moldova Estimated	50,498	+11.5%
113	Kyrgyzstan Estimated	50,085	-2.5%
114	Laos Estimated	49,746	+4.6%
115	Israel Estimated	49,411	+3.7%
116	Lebanon Estimated	48,154	+31.8%
117	Lithuania Estimated	46,703	+7.2%
118	Jordan Estimated	45,015	+18.7%
119	Liberia Estimated	44,758	+2.3%
120	Nicaragua Estimated	43,972	+0.5%
121	Turkmenistan Estimated	42,862	-1.7%
122	Norway Estimated	41,915	+3.3%
123	Libya Estimated	41,687	+6.7%
124	Republic of the Congo Estimated	40,640	+3.9%
125	Uruguay Estimated	39,831	+27.1%
126	Armenia Estimated	38,071	-7.3%
127	Ireland Estimated	35,943	+11.8%
128	New Zealand Estimated	35,080	+7.1%
129	Latvia Estimated	34,306	+20.6%
130	Puerto Rico Estimated	33,994	0%
131	Costa Rica Estimated	33,229	+18.4%
132	Mauritania Estimated	29,781	+1%
133	Albania Estimated	29,243	+12.1%
134	Lesotho Estimated	28,497	+7.2%
135	Jamaica Estimated	27,540	+26.1%
136	North Macedonia Estimated	27,373	+9.8%
137	Singapore Estimated	26,073	+5.1%
138	Namibia Estimated	25,786	+25.7%
139	Mongolia Estimated	24,666	+15.9%
140	Panama Estimated	24,520	-2.6%
141	Slovenia Estimated	23,087	-3%
142	Eritrea Estimated	22,151	+2.3%
143	Botswana Estimated	20,155	+36.2%
144	Palestine Estimated	19,536	+13.6%
145	Gambia Estimated	18,057	+5.6%
146	Estonia Estimated	17,627	+15.2%
147	Guinea-Bissau Estimated	16,518	0%
148	Gabon Estimated	16,167	+1.9%
149	Equatorial Guinea Estimated	14,840	+0.1%
150	Trinidad and Tobago Estimated	14,523	+18%
151	Kuwait Estimated	13,971	+11.9%
152	Eswatini Estimated	12,798	+12.4%
153	Mauritius Estimated	12,668	+19.6%
154	Oman Estimated	12,535	+13.4%
155	United Arab Emirates Estimated	12,312	+16.5%
156	Timor-Leste Estimated	10,588	+8.1%
157	Fiji Estimated	10,228	+20.4%
158	Cyprus Estimated	9,496	+9.4%
159	Djibouti Estimated	9,337	+5.2%
160	Montenegro Estimated	9,133	+21.5%
161	Guyana Estimated	8,969	+30.8%
162	Comoros Estimated	6,490	+5.6%
163	Suriname Estimated	5,569	+32.8%
164	Réunion Estimated	5,429	+16.4%
165	Martinique Estimated	5,222	+30.4%
166	Bhutan Estimated	4,834	0%
167	Guadeloupe Estimated	4,622	+20.8%
168	Luxembourg Estimated	4,593	-2.6%
169	Solomon Islands Estimated	4,498	+3.8%
170	Bahamas Estimated	4,463	+18.4%
171	Bahrain Estimated	4,211	+9.8%
172	Malta Estimated	4,013	+2.2%
173	Western Sahara Estimated	3,497	+2%
174	Macao Estimated	3,067	+18%
175	Qatar Estimated	2,965	+0.4%
176	Cape Verde Estimated	2,918	-3.7%
177	Barbados Estimated	2,770	+3%
178	Brunei Estimated	2,366	+7.4%
179	Belize Estimated	2,352	+7.9%
180	Iceland Estimated	2,344	+1.3%
181	Saint Lucia Estimated	2,081	+36.5%
182	Curaçao Estimated	1,932	+11.2%
183	New Caledonia Estimated	1,901	-9.7%
184	French Guiana Estimated	1,826	+44.2%
185	Vanuatu Estimated	1,773	+3.4%
186	Maldives Estimated	1,609	+8.1%
187	French Polynesia Estimated	1,467	+37.9%
188	U.S. Virgin Islands Estimated	1,398	+2%
189	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	1,375	+1.6%
190	Samoa Estimated	1,369	-0.6%
191	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estimated	1,309	-2.2%
192	Aruba Estimated	1,266	+22.6%
193	Guam Estimated	1,214	+3.7%
194	Jersey Estimated	1,179	+3%
195	Seychelles Estimated	1,131	+36.9%
196	Grenada Estimated	1,073	+7.2%
197	Mayotte Estimated	1,049	+17.3%
198	Kiribati Estimated	1,047	+9.9%
199	Dominica Estimated	962	+12%
200	Monaco Estimated	940	+15.2%
201	Isle of Man Estimated	902	+2.9%
202	Micronesia Estimated	884	0%
203	Tonga Estimated	707	+3.5%
204	Guernsey Estimated	637	+15.6%
205	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	628	+3.5%
206	Saint Kitts and Nevis Estimated	593	+20.5%
207	Faroe Islands Estimated	579	+6%
208	Bermuda Estimated	566	+0.4%
209	Andorra Estimated	547	-14.7%
210	Greenland Estimated	533	+2.1%
211	Sint Maarten Estimated	367	+13.3%
212	Cayman Islands Estimated	349	+4.2%
212	Turks and Caicos Islands Estimated	349	+6.4%
214	San Marino Estimated	339	-6.1%
215	Gibraltar Estimated	326	+30.9%
216	American Samoa Estimated	324	+2.5%
217	Marshall Islands Estimated	306	-1.9%
218	Liechtenstein Estimated	300	-6.8%
219	Saint Martin Estimated	268	-33.3%
220	British Virgin Islands Estimated	266	+23.7%
221	Caribbean Netherlands Estimated	225	+0.4%
222	Northern Mariana Islands Estimated	206	+4.6%
223	Palau Estimated	205	+3.5%
224	Cook Islands Estimated	134	-1.5%
225	Tuvalu Estimated	98	+3.2%
226	Anguilla Estimated	92	+7%
227	Wallis and Futuna Estimated	91	+9.6%
228	Nauru Estimated	90	+2.3%
229	Saint Helena Estimated	87	+6.1%
230	Saint Pierre and Miquelon Estimated	82	0%
231	Saint Barthélemy Estimated	67	+21.8%
232	Montserrat Estimated	59	+1.7%
233	Falkland Islands Estimated	27	+3.8%
234	Niue Estimated	26	0%
235	Tokelau Estimated	13	0%
236	Vatican City Estimated	12	0%

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Deaths of residents in the area during the year.

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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.

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