List of countries by number of deaths

The following list sorts sovereign states and dependent territories and by the total number of deaths. Figures are from the 2022 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2021.

List of countries by number of deaths edit

Countries and dependent territories by the number of deaths in 2021 according to the World Population Prospects 2022 of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The list takes account of the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic on mortality.^[1]

Rank	Country	Number of deaths (2021)
1	India	13,299,618
2	China	10,617,528
3	United States	3,280,682
4	Nigeria	2,792,704
5	Indonesia	2,755,190
6	Russia	2,458,539
7	Brazil	1,784,239
8	Pakistan	1,660,400
9	Japan	1,574,533
10	Mexico	1,191,718
11	Germany	1,039,440
12	Bangladesh	962,479
13	Democratic Republic of the Congo	930,839
14	Philippines	832,888
15	Ethiopia	815,212
16	Ukraine	731,364
17	Vietnam	713,131
18	Egypt	691,381
19	Italy	680,373
20	South Africa	678,798
21	United Kingdom	652,723
22	France	639,714
23	Thailand	567,168
24	Iran	565,768
25	Turkey	542,597
26	Myanmar	525,701
27	Poland	502,541
28	Spain	454,123
29	Kenya	427,272
30	Argentina	405,428
31	Colombia	397,649
32	Tanzania	395,720
33	Korea	334,677
34	Romania	314,232
35	Sudan	310,515
36	Canada	297,242
37	Afghanistan	295,236
38	Mozambique	282,145
39	Angola	276,278
40	Uganda	269,420
41	Peru	269,050
42	Ghana	250,471
43	Côte d'Ivoire	247,449
44	North Korea	241,887
45	Cameroon	233,498
46	Nepal	232,398
47	Venezuela	231,205
48	Morocco	228,888
49	Yemen	226,104
50	Uzbekistan	220,493
51	Chad	214,803
52	Iraq	207,099
53	Niger	205,694
54	Madagascar	205,436
55	Mali	203,297
56	Malaysia	202,436
57	Algeria	200,842
58	Burkina Faso	198,073
59	Somalia	198,038
60	Kazakhstan	196,490
61	Taiwan	176,533
62	Netherlands	168,003
63	Australia	166,082
64	Cuba	164,950
65	Sri Lanka	160,593
66	Belarus	158,349
67	Hungary	154,245
68	Bulgaria	153,894
69	Zimbabwe	144,973
70	Chile	144,326
71	Malawi	138,931
72	Serbia	138,202
73	Zambia	135,787
74	Greece	135,773
75	Guinea	135,224
76	Czech Republic	134,058
77	Portugal	123,550
78	Benin	122,627
79	Bolivia	120,158
80	Ecuador	119,463
81	South Sudan	118,956
82	Guatemala	114,597
83	Cambodia	113,507
84	Belgium	110,280
85	Syria	108,607
86	Saudi Arabia	103,140
87	Senegal	99,995
88	Haiti	99,459
89	Tunisia	96,709
90	Azerbaijan	94,932
91	Burundi	93,864
92	Sweden	92,278
93	Austria	89,691
94	Rwanda	84,576
95	Sierra Leone	76,745
96	Dominican Republic	74,290
97	Slovakia	72,471
98	Togo	70,622
99	Switzerland	69,734
100	Papua New Guinea	66,458
101	Central African Republic	62,683
102	Croatia	62,262
103	Denmark	58,422
104	Honduras	57,654
105	Finland	57,283
106	Georgia	57,023
107	El Salvador	54,803
108	Hong Kong	53,764
109	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51,587
110	Paraguay	51,237
111	Lithuania	50,975
112	Republic of Moldova	50,200
113	Israel	49,845
114	Laos	49,136
115	Lebanon	46,727
116	Liberia	45,955
117	Tajikistan	44,345
118	Jordan	43,100
119	Norway	41,871
120	Turkmenistan	41,769
121	Uruguay	41,681
122	Republic of the Congo	41,238
123	Libya	40,532
124	Kyrgyzstan	40,495
125	Costa Rica	37,055
126	Armenia	36,379
127	Latvia	36,094
128	Ireland	35,151
129	Mauritania	34,347
130	New Zealand	33,869
131	Nicaragua	33,308
132	Puerto Rico	32,914
133	Albania	32,392
134	Lesotho	32,376
135	Singapore	31,862
136	Macedonia	29,194
137	Namibia	27,119
138	Panama	26,382
139	Jamaica	24,899
140	Botswana	24,478
141	Eritrea	24,415
142	Slovenia	22,948
143	Mongolia	20,520
144	Gambia	19,923
145	Palestinian Territory	19,610
146	Estonia	18,826
147	Guinea-Bissau	17,969
148	United Arab Emirates	17,548
149	Oman	17,206
150	Gabon	16,987
151	Equatorial Guinea	14,750
152	Trinidad and Tobago	13,917
153	Swaziland	13,566
154	Mauritius	12,527
155	Kuwait	12,398
156	Kosovo	12,054
157	Djibouti	10,109
158	East Timor	9,562
159	Cyprus	9,021
160	Fiji	8,218
161	Guyana	8,057
162	Montenegro	7,556
163	Comoros	7,171
164	Réunion	5,638
165	Suriname	5,315
166	Bhutan	5,035
167	Luxembourg	4,341
168	Martinique	4,135
169	Guadeloupe	4,091
170	Malta	3,819
171	Bahamas	3,663
172	Bahrain	3,638
173	Solomon Islands	3,561
174	Cape Verde	3,548
175	Qatar	3,542
176	Western Sahara	3,497
177	Macao	2,813
178	Belize	2,540
179	Barbados	2,533
180	Iceland	2,512
181	Brunei	2,321
182	Curaçao	1,940
183	Saint Lucia	1,850
184	New Caledonia	1,749
185	Vanuatu	1,722
186	French Polynesia	1,635
187	Maldives	1,573
188	French Guiana	1,463
189	Sao Tome and Principe	1,428
190	United States Virgin Islands	1,426
191	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1,403
192	Guam	1,252
193	Aruba	1,194
194	Samoa	1,171
195	Grenada	1,016
196	Mayotte	999
197	Seychelles	955
198	Jersey	953
199	Isle of Man	891
200	Kiribati	805
201	Monaco	778
202	Tonga	742
203	Federated States of Micronesia	705
204	Bermuda	689
205	Dominica	651
206	Andorra	642
207	Faroe Islands	597
208	Antigua and Barbuda	593
209	Guernsey	506
210	Greenland	498
211	Saint Kitts and Nevis	485
212	Cayman Islands	448
213	Turks and Caicos Islands	414
214	San Marino	391
215	Gibraltar	378
216	Sint Maarten	339
217	Marshall Islands	325
218	American Samoa	311
219	Northern Mariana Islands	295
220	Liechtenstein	281
221	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	276
222	British Virgin Islands	236
223	Palau	228
224	Saint Martin	159
225	Cook Islands	144
226	Tuvalu	114
227	Anguilla	106
228	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	87
229	Wallis and Futuna	86
230	Nauru	83
231	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	73
232	Saint Barthélemy	60
233	Montserrat	49
234	Falkland Islands	28
235	Niue	18
236	Tokelau	9