Find A Grave Index Update

Find A Grave, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ancestry.com, promotes itself as the world’s largest gravesite collection with over 180 million memorials created by the community since 1995.
With an update on Ancestry on 1 November, the exact number is 181,584,856. 82% are in the USA, followed by Global including burials at sea (7.4%), UK and Ireland (3.7%), then Canada (3.5%.)

Title	Dates	Records
Australia and New Zealand	1800s-Current	5442567
Brazil	1800s-Current	126,161
Canada	1600s-Current	6,103,062
Germany	1600s-Current	688,049
Global	1300s-Current	13,393,910
Italy	1800s-Current	148,121
Mexico	1800s-Current	27,588
Norway	1800s-Current	158,176
Sweden	1800s-Current	41,561
U.S.	1600s-Current	148,768,351
UK and Ireland	1300s-Current	6,687,310

For those who turn first to obits in the newspaper, Find A Grave has a list of recent deaths of famous people from around the world.