Report - DCE - Nationalt Center for Miljø og Energi

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Even though the total number of yearly cremations is fluctuating, the cremation
percentage has been steadily increasing since 1984, and is likely to continue
to increase.
The average body weight of cremated corpses is assumed to be 65 kg.
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Figure 7.2 presents the trend of the national number of deceased persons together
with the activity data for human cremation. The figure shows a direct
connection between the number of deceased and the activity of human cremation
as the two trends are quite similar. Figure 7.2 also shows the effect of
the increasing fraction of cremated bodies, as the number of cremations is
not decreasing along with the number of deceased. The cremation fraction
has increased from 67 % in 1990 to 77 % in 2010; the trend of this fraction is
shown in Figure 7.1, Table 7.3 and Annex 2D Table 2D-1.
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For crematoria, emissions are calculated by multiplying the total number of
cremations by the emission factors. Since there are no measurements available
of the yearly emission from Danish crematoria, the estimation of emis-