Table 2. NPC mortality rate trends in population older than 30 years with Joinpoint analyses on the available data of the 14 out of the top 20 mortality rate registries.

	Trend 1		Trend 2		Trend 3
	years	APC [95% CI]	years	APC [95% CI]	years	APC [95% CI]
China Hong Kong	1966–1983	−1.4*[−2.3 – −0.5]	1983–2007	−3.6* [−4.0 – −3.2]
Singapore	1966–1975	4.9* [−0.8 – 9.1]	1975–1995	−1.6* [−2.6 – −0.6]	1995–2006	−5.8* [−7.7 – −3.8]
Malta	1978–2007	−2.3 [−4.6– −0.1]
Slovakia	1992–2005	−2.9 [−6.3 – 0.5]
Greece	1966–2008	2.0* [1.3 – 2.7]
Isreal	1975–2006	−1.4* [−2.7 – −0.1]
Lithuania	1993–2008	1.8 [−2.9 – 6.6]
Czech Republic	1986–2008	−2.2* [−3.7 – −0.6]
Australia	1955–1992	2.6* [1.9– 3.4]	1992–2006	−6. 1* [−8.4– −3.8]
Canada	1955–1988	1.8* [1.0 – 2.5]	1988–2004	−2.1* [−3.6 – −0.6]
Croatia	1985–2008	−2.4 [−4.9 – 0.2]
Albania	1987–2004	−7.4* [−10.7 – −4.0]
South Africa	1994–2006	1.2 [−2.8 – 5.4]
USA	1960–1983	−0.1 [−0.6 – 0.4]	1983–2005	−1.8[−2.2 – −1.4]

*The average APC is statistically significant from zero.