Table 1.
Incidence of gastric cancer in 2008.
| Geographic region | Country | Total | Male | Female | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total numbers | ASR | Total numbers | ASR | Total numbers | ASR | ||
| World total | 989598 | 14.1 | 640556 | 19.8 | 349042 | 9.1 | |
| Asia | 727500 | 18.6 | 484244 | 25.9 | 243256 | 11.7 | |
| East Asia | 601314 | 30.0 | 408208 | 42.4 | 193106 | 18.3 | |
| West Asia | 14879 | 9.4 | 9248 | 12.6 | 5631 | 6.7 | |
| Southeast Asia | 43281 | 8.6 | 24926 | 10.9 | 18355 | 6.7 | |
| South-Central Asia | 68037 | 5.3 | 41871 | 6.7 | 26166 | 3.9 | |
| Latin America and Caribbean | 65360 | 11.7 | 39401 | 15.7 | 25959 | 8.4 | |
| South America | 47244 | 12.4 | 29312 | 17.3 | 17932 | 8.4 | |
| Central America | 14144 | 10.9 | 7671 | 12.7 | 6473 | 9.3 | |
| Caribbean | 3972 | 8.5 | 2418 | 11.2 | 1554 | 6.1 | |
| Europe | 146939 | 10.3 | 87548 | 14.7 | 59391 | 7.0 | |
| Central-East Europe | 73940 | 14.7 | 43292 | 22.2 | 30648 | 9.7 | |
| South Europe | 32873 | 10.1 | 19953 | 14.0 | 12920 | 6.8 | |
| West Europe | 27457 | 6.5 | 16530 | 9.0 | 10927 | 4.4 | |
| North Europe | 12669 | 6.2 | 7773 | 8.6 | 4896 | 4.2 | |
| Oceania | 2728 | 5.5 | 1746 | 7.5 | 982 | 3.7 | |
| North America | 24401 | 4.2 | 15051 | 5.8 | 9350 | 2.8 | |
| Africa | 22659 | 4.0 | 12557 | 4.7 | 10102 | 3.3 | |
| (1) East Asia | South Korea | 27098 | 41.4 | 18200 | 62.2 | 8898 | 24.6 |
| (2) East Asia | Mongolia | 603 | 34.0 | 390 | 48.2 | 213 | 22.3 |
| (3) East Asia | Japan | 102040 | 31.1 | 69561 | 46.8 | 32479 | 18.2 |
| (4) East Asia | China | 464439 | 29.9 | 315843 | 41.3 | 148596 | 18.5 |
| (5) Central America | Guatemala | 2332 | 26.6 | 1123 | 27.3 | 1209 | 25.9 |
| (6) Central America | Honduras | 1245 | 26.6 | 701 | 31.4 | 544 | 22.3 |
| (7) South-Central Asia | Bhutan | 114 | 24.2 | 76 | 31.6 | 38 | 16.2 |
| (8) South America | Ecuador | 3025 | 23.7 | 1667 | 28.0 | 1358 | 19.8 |
| (9) South-Central Asia | Kyrgyzstan | 964 | 23.2 | 619 | 34.2 | 345 | 14.5 |
| (10) Central-East Europe | Belarus | 3527 | 22.5 | 2023 | 34.2 | 1504 | 15.0 |
| (11) Central America | Costa Rica | 946 | 21.8 | 584 | 28.5 | 362 | 15.6 |
| (12) South Europe | Albania | 845 | 21.3 | 459 | 25.4 | 386 | 17.6 |
| (13) South America | Peru | 5215 | 21.2 | 2593 | 22.6 | 2622 | 20.0 |
| (14) South-Central Asia | Kazakhstan | 3329 | 20.6 | 1939 | 31.7 | 1390 | 13.7 |
| (15) West Africa | Mali | 1177 | 20.3 | 567 | 21.6 | 610 | 19.3 |
| (16) South-Central Asia | Tajikistan | 716 | 18.9 | 384 | 22.9 | 332 | 15.6 |
| (17) Southeast Asia | Viet Nam | 15068 | 18.9 | 8429 | 24.4 | 6639 | 14.6 |
| (18) Caribbean | Jamaica | 522 | 18.3 | 318 | 24.9 | 204 | 12.3 |
| (19) South America | Chile | 3762 | 17.9 | 2497 | 27.3 | 1265 | 10.3 |
| (20) Central-East Europe | Russia | 40615 | 17.5 | 22876 | 26.9 | 17739 | 11.7 |
| (21) South America | Colombia | 6638 | 17.4 | 3959 | 23.4 | 2679 | 12.5 |
| (22) West Asia | Azerbaijan | 1428 | 17.3 | 805 | 22.9 | 623 | 12.9 |
| (23) Central-East Europe | Ukraine | 13181 | 16.1 | 7902 | 25.2 | 5279 | 10.3 |
| (24) South-Central Asia | Afghanistan | 1716 | 15.8 | 1036 | 19.5 | 680 | 12.2 |
| (25) South-Central Asia | Iran | 8641 | 15.6 | 6188 | 21.9 | 2453 | 9.0 |
| (26) South-Central Asia | Turkmenistan | 532 | 15.4 | 310 | 21.2 | 222 | 10.9 |
| (27) West Asia | Armenia | 670 | 15.1 | 414 | 23.0 | 256 | 9.6 |
| (28) South Europe | FYR Macedonia | 468 | 15.1 | 315 | 22.7 | 153 | 8.6 |
| (29) North Europe | Lithuania | 916 | 15.0 | 532 | 23.0 | 384 | 10.0 |
| (30) South Europe | Montenegro | 149 | 15.0 | 85 | 19.2 | 64 | 11.5 |
ASR: age-standardized incidence rates per 100,000 population.
Data are obtained from GLOBOCAN databases, which provide access to the most recent estimates (for 2008) of the incidence of and mortality from 27 major cancers worldwide and is organized by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) (http://globocan.iarc.fr/).
In addition to the ASR for geographic regions, countries with ASRs that are equal or more than 15.0 for the total (male and female) with total number of gastric cancer more than 100 are listed.