Table 1.

Female breast cancer incidence rates, mortality rates, and mortality : incidence ratios for selected countries and the world, by World Bank income classification^{a, b}.

Country name	Region	Incidence ratecf	Mortality ratedf	Mortality to incidence ratioe
World	World	37.4	13.2	35.3
Middle incom-upper b
Botswana	Africa	33.4	25.0	74.9
Brazil	Latin America	46.0	14.1	30.7
Colombia	Latin America	30.3	12.5	41.3
Gabon	Africa	18.2	13.1	72.0
Lebanon	Middle East	52.5	23.4	44.6
Malaysia	East Asia	30.8	13.5	43.8
Mexico	Latin America	26.4	10.5	39.8
Namibia	Gabon	24.7	18.8	76.1
Panama	Latin America	29.0	12.0	41.4
Peru	Latin America	35.1	14.0	39.9
Romania	Europe	44.3	16.7	37.7
South Africa	Africa	35.0	16.4	46.9
Turkey	Europe	22.0	9.7	44.1
Middle income lower b
Bolivia	Latin America	24.7	11.6	47.0
Honduras	Latin America	25.9	12.1	46.7
Jordan	Middle East	33.0	14.6	44.2
Nigeria	Africa	31.2	21.9	70.2
Sudan	Africa	22.5	16.6	73.8
Low income b
Mozambique	Africa	3.9	2.8	71.8
Tajikistan	Europe	13.2	6.2	47.0
Uganda	Africa	18.3	13.4	73.2
Vietnam	East Asia	16.2	7.1	43.8
Yemen	Middle East	35.1	15.6	44.4
Zimbabwe	Africa	19.0	14.1	74.2
High income b
Australia		83.2	18.4	22.1
Italy	Europe	74.4	18.9	25.4
Japan	Asia	32.7	8.3	25.4
United States	North America	101.1	19.0	18.8

N o t e s: (a) bold type indicate higher mortality: incidence ratios than South Africa, (b) income classification based on World Bank list of economies (July 2009) [8], (c) incidence rate (IR): number of new cases of breast cancer per 100,000, age-standardized to the world population (ASR), (d) mortality rate (MR): Number of deaths due to breast cancer per 100,000 (ASR), (e) Mortality to Incidence Ratio = MR/IR, (f) IR and MR from GLOBOCAN 2002 [13].