List of countries by cancer rate

This is a list of countries by cancer rate, as measured variously by the number of new cancer cases (frequency), or death rate (mortality), per 100,000 population among countries (and dependencies).

Cancer frequency

This is a list of countries by cancer frequency, as measured by the number of new cancer cases per 100,000 population among countries, based on the 2012 and 2014 GLOBOCAN statistics.[1] It excludes non-melanoma skin cancer.

Rank Country Cancer
rate
1 Denmark338.1
2 France324.6
3 Australia323.0
4 Belgium321.1
5 Norway318.3
6 United States318.0
7 Ireland307.9
8 South Korea307.8
9 Netherlands304.8
10 New Caledonia297.9
11 Slovenia296.3
12 Canada295.7
13 New Zealand295.0
14 Czech Republic293.8
15  Switzerland287.0
16 Hungary285.4
17 Iceland284.3
18 Germany283.8
19 Israel283.2
20 Luxembourg280.3
21 Italy278.6
22 Slovakia276.9
23 United Kingdom272.9
24 Sweden270.0
25 Serbia269.7
26 Croatia266.9
27 Barbados263.1
28 Armenia257.0
29 Finland256.8
30 French Polynesia255.0
31 Austria254.1
32 Lithuania251.9
33 Uruguay251.0
34 Spain249.0
35 Latvia246.8
36 Portugal246.2
37 Martinique245.0
38 Malta242.9
39 Estonia242.8
40 Macedonia239.3
41 Montenegro238.3
42 Kazakhstan236.5
43 Bulgaria234.8
44 Poland229.6
45 Romania224.2
46 Belarus218.7
47 Cuba218.0
48 Japan217.1
49 Argentina216.7
50 Puerto Rico211.1
51 Turkey205.1
52 Chile175.7
53 Greece163.0
54 Mexico131.5

Cancer deaths
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There are databases for "cancer mortality", including WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer.[2] The 2014 IARC statistics include 172 countries.

Rank Country Cancer
rate
1 Armenia229.84
2 Zimbabwe209.92
3 Hungary194.50
4 Mongolia181.43
5 Serbia180.02
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See also

References
  1. "Cancer frequency". WCRF.
  2. "WHO Database". dep.iarc.fr. IARC.
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