The following list sorts sovereign states and dependent territories and by the total number of deaths. Figures are from the 2024 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2023.

Countries and dependent territories by the number of deaths in 2023 according to the World Population Prospects 2024 of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. ^[1]

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
Japan	1,524,430
Brazil	1,494,154
Germany	1,034,140
Democratic Republic of the Congo	901,851
Bangladesh	859,075
Mexico	799,366
Ethiopia	767,018
Philippines	716,490
Italy	663,448
Vietnam	659,980
United Kingdom	653,747
Thailand	637,306
Egypt	625,449
France	616,095
South Africa	584,015
Turkey	551,598
Myanmar	495,470
Ukraine	495,421
Spain	447,463
Iran	423,367
Poland	412,310
Kenya	399,024
Tanzania	385,799
Argentina	349,195
South Korea	345,502
Sudan	320,491
Canada	311,824
Colombia	282,433
Romania	257,119
North Korea	255,826
Angola	254,482
Afghanistan	240,296
Ivory Coast	238,741
Ghana	237,869
Uganda	235,583
Mozambique	235,520
Madagascar	234,841
Niger	231,746
Uzbekistan	221,249
Algeria	214,259
Venezuela	213,955
Chad	213,123
Morocco	212,624
Nepal	205,841
Taiwan	205,339
Mali	205,047
Cameroon	202,882
Yemen	188,764
Iraq	186,266
Peru	185,861
Australia	183,924
Burkina Faso	183,375
Malaysia	181,166
Somalia	180,554
Netherlands	166,338
Sri Lanka	162,453
Kazakhstan	136,388
Guinea	131,455
Hungary	128,063
Chile	127,691
Greece	127,018
Zimbabwe	124,412
Benin	124,132
Belarus	121,587
Syria	118,900
Portugal	115,917
Belgium	113,791
Czech Republic	113,525
Malawi	113,181
Cuba	111,819
Cambodia	111,340
South Sudan	110,339
Zambia	107,917
Bulgaria	102,980
Senegal	100,882
Sweden	93,944
Serbia	93,928
Austria	93,223
Ecuador	92,204
Burundi	91,963
Haiti	90,966
Bolivia	87,812
Guatemala	87,523
Rwanda	82,826
Saudi Arabia	77,837
Tunisia	74,071
Switzerland	73,788
Togo	71,661
Dominican Republic	70,823
Sierra Leone	70,116
Azerbaijan	67,842
Papua New Guinea	67,700
Finland	59,984
Denmark	57,275
Hong Kong	57,190
Croatia	55,029
Slovakia	54,167
Israel	51,294
Libya	48,610
Central African Republic	48,529
Laos	47,682
Honduras	47,670
Tajikistan	47,595
El Salvador	47,443
Georgia	45,077
Liberia	44,333
Norway	44,143
Bosnia and Herzegovina	42,861
Turkmenistan	42,575
Kyrgyzstan	42,200
Moldova	41,730
Lithuania	40,940
Paraguay	39,034
Palestine	38,937
Republic of the Congo	38,880
New Zealand	37,686
Ireland	35,550
Jordan	34,873
Puerto Rico	34,664
Lebanon	34,419
Uruguay	33,145
Nicaragua	31,294
Costa Rica	27,861
Singapore	27,728
Mauritania	27,725
Latvia	27,614
Armenia	27,579
Lesotho	24,612
Albania	23,428
Jamaica	22,933
Slovenia	21,581
Panama	21,272
Eritrea	20,984
Mongolia	20,340
North Macedonia	19,863
Namibia	18,279
Gambia	16,975
Estonia	16,693
Gabon	15,577
Guinea-Bissau	15,181
Equatorial Guinea	14,556
Botswana	14,197
Trinidad and Tobago	12,577
Mauritius	11,124
Timor-Leste	10,065
Kosovo	9,981
United Arab Emirates	9,916
Oman	9,597
Cyprus	9,499
Eswatini	9,475
Kuwait	8,624
Djibouti	8,596
Fiji	8,553
Montenegro	7,209
Comoros	6,119
Guyana	6,049
Bhutan	4,805
Réunion	4,797
Luxembourg	4,642
Suriname	4,182
Solomon Islands	4,113
Malta	3,928
Western Sahara	3,678
Guadeloupe	3,560
Martinique	3,502
Bahamas	3,480
Macau	3,423
Bahrain	3,278
Barbados	2,996
Qatar	2,771
Cape Verde	2,642
Iceland	2,612
Brunei	2,400
Belize	2,025
Curaçao	1,844
New Caledonia	1,818
Vanuatu	1,629
Saint Lucia	1,544
French Guiana	1,502
Samoa	1,334
United States Virgin Islands	1,321
São Tomé and Príncipe	1,287
Maldives	1,230
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1,165
Jersey	1,150
Guam	1,144
Seychelles	1,051
Grenada	1,037
Aruba	1,034
French Polynesia	1,026
Kiribati	934
Isle of Man	882
Federated States of Micronesia	860
Mayotte	854
Dominica	849
Monaco	817
Tonga	674
Antigua and Barbuda	643
Guernsey	595
Bermuda	573
Faroe Islands	564
Greenland	551
Andorra	491
Saint Kitts and Nevis	466
Cayman Islands	351
Sint Maarten	347
Turks and Caicos Islands	342
American Samoa	334
Liechtenstein	300
Marshall Islands	271
San Marino	270
Caribbean Netherlands	258
Saint Martin	255
Gibraltar	250
British Virgin Islands	233
Northern Mariana Islands	212
Palau	204
Cook Islands	132
Anguilla	96
Tuvalu	90
Nauru	89
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	89
Wallis and Futuna	88
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	82
Saint Barthélemy	70
Montserrat	60
Falkland Islands	27
Niue	27
Tokelau	14
Vatican City	13

• List of countries by mortality rate
• List of countries by life expectancy
• List of countries by number of births

• United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs – Population Division – World Population Prospects, the 2022 Revision