Table 1. Number of new cancer cases, percentages of new cancer cases and adults aged 60 years and older, crude and truncated ASR among adults aged 60 years and older living in LMICs and worldwide by sex.
| Number of new cases among 60+a | Percentages of new cases among 60+ (%) | Percentages of population aged 60+ (%) | Crude incidence rate among adults aged 60+ (per 100,000) | Truncated age-standardised incidence rates among adults aged 60+ (per 100,000) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | |
| LMICs | 2,748,000 | 3,509,000 | 49.3 | 61.7 | 12.3 | 10.4 | 689 | 1,015 | 668 | 1,007 |
| Low-income countries | 99,000 | 95,000 | 34.6 | 47.6 | 5.7 | 4.6 | 505 | 597 | 500 | 608 |
| Lower-middle-income countries (excluding India) | 378,000 | 427,000 | 42.4 | 52.9 | 8.5 | 7.1 | 562 | 763 | 553 | 763 |
| India | 292,000 | 336,000 | 43.3 | 52.6 | 10.7 | 9.6 | 411 | 491 | 407 | 491 |
| Upper-middle-income countries (excluding China) | 860,000 | 1,043,000 | 52.6 | 66.3 | 14.7 | 11.7 | 782 | 1,230 | 748 | 1,205 |
| China | 1,120,000 | 1,607,000 | 53.8 | 65.2 | 18.6 | 16.3 | 853 | 1,332 | 823 | 1,317 |
| World | 4,925,000 | 6,381,000 | 56.3 | 68.3 | 14.6 | 12.3 | 871 | 1,318 | 816 | 1,268 |
a
Rounded to the nearest thousand