Table 1. Number, crude, and standardized incidence rate of esophageal cancer in Asian countries in 2012 (sorted by age standardized rates of both sexes from highest to lowest).
| Population | Esophagus: estimated incidence |
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| Numbers | Crude rate | ASR (W) | Numbers | Crude rate | ASR (W) | Numbers | Crude rate | ASR (W) | |||
| Turkmenistan | 719 | 13.9 | 19.7 | 384 | 15.1 | 24.0 | 335 | 12.8 | 16.4 | ||
| Mongolia | 316 | 11.1 | 17.6 | 166 | 11.8 | 21.2 | 150 | 10.4 | 14.9 | ||
| Tajikistan | 570 | 8.1 | 14.7 | 342 | 9.8 | 19.8 | 228 | 6.3 | 10.7 | ||
| China | 223,306 | 16.4 | 12.5 | 160,436 | 22.7 | 18.6 | 62,870 | 9.6 | 6.7 | ||
| Bangladesh | 13,909 | 9.1 | 12.7 | 8,567 | 11.1 | 15.9 | 5,342 | 7.1 | 9.5 | ||
| Kazakhstan | 1,684 | 10.3 | 10.1 | 965 | 12.3 | 15.8 | 719 | 8.4 | 6.6 | ||
| Afghanistan | 1,326 | 4.0 | 9.6 | 801 | 4.6 | 11.8 | 525 | 3.3 | 7.5 | ||
| Islamic Republic of Iran | 5,343 | 7.1 | 8.6 | 2,898 | 7.6 | 9.0 | 2,445 | 6.6 | 8.0 | ||
| Myanmar | 3,437 | 7.1 | 7.6 | 2,441 | 10.2 | 11.4 | 996 | 4.0 | 4.2 | ||
| Japan | 19,683 | 15.6 | 6.1 | 16,530 | 26.9 | 11.1 | 3,153 | 4.9 | 1.7 | ||
| Uzbekistan | 1,180 | 4.2 | 6.0 | 627 | 4.5 | 7.2 | 553 | 3.9 | 5.0 | ||
| Bhutan | 32 | 4.3 | 5.7 | 19 | 4.8 | 6.5 | 13 | 3.7 | 4.8 | ||
| Sri Lanka | 1,407 | 6.6 | 5.6 | 667 | 6.4 | 5.7 | 740 | 6.9 | 5.4 | ||
| Democratic Republic of Korea | 1,618 | 6.6 | 5.2 | 1,226 | 10.2 | 9.5 | 392 | 3.1 | 1.9 | ||
| Kyrgyzstan | 187 | 3.4 | 4.9 | 108 | 4.0 | 6.9 | 79 | 2.9 | 3.4 | ||
| Azerbaijan | 440 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 253 | 5.4 | 6.3 | 187 | 3.9 | 3.3 | ||
| Maldives | 10 | 3.1 | 4.3 | 7 | 4.3 | 6.0 | 3 | 1.9 | 2.6 | ||
| Yemen | 462 | 1.8 | 4.3 | 203 | 1.6 | 4.4 | 259 | 2.0 | 4.4 | ||
| Pakistan | 5,168 | 2.9 | 4.1 | 2,450 | 2.7 | 3.9 | 2,718 | 3.1 | 4.4 | ||
| India | 41,774 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 27,152 | 4.2 | 5.4 | 14,622 | 2.4 | 2.8 | ||
| Turkey | 2,536 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 1,395 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 1,141 | 3.1 | 3.0 | ||
| Viet Nam | 2,763 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 2,428 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 335 | 0.7 | 0.7 | ||
| Republic of Korea | 2,223 | 4.6 | 2.9 | 2,034 | 8.4 | 6.0 | 189 | 0.8 | 0.4 | ||
| Thailand | 2,308 | 3.3 | 2.5 | 1,873 | 5.5 | 4.4 | 435 | 1.2 | 0.8 | ||
| Nepal | 504 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 328 | 2.1 | 3.6 | 176 | 1.1 | 1.6 | ||
| Cambodia | 237 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 161 | 2.3 | 4.2 | 76 | 1.0 | 1.3 | ||
| Qatar | 13 | 0.7 | 2.2 | 9 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 4 | 0.9 | 3.0 | ||
| United Arab Emirates | 40 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 24 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 16 | 0.6 | 2.5 | ||
| Malaysia | 483 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 298 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 185 | 1.3 | 1.5 | ||
| Singapore | 137 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 107 | 4.0 | 2.9 | 30 | 1.2 | 0.6 | ||
| Bahrain | 10 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 7 | 0.8 | 2.2 | 3 | 0.6 | 1.3 | ||
| Timor-Leste | 10 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 8 | 1.3 | 2.6 | 2 | 0.3 | 0.8 | ||
| State of Palestine | 30 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 22 | 1.0 | 2.3 | 8 | 0.4 | 0.8 | ||
| Oman | 21 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 14 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 7 | 0.6 | 1.2 | ||
| Saudi Arabia | 225 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 121 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 104 | 0.8 | 1.4 | ||
| Armenia | 60 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 39 | 2.7 | 2.2 | 21 | 1.3 | 0.6 | ||
| Israel | 140 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 85 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 55 | 1.4 | 0.8 | ||
| Iraq | 190 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 99 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 91 | 0.5 | 1.0 | ||
| Philippines | 715 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 519 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 196 | 0.4 | 0.6 | ||
| Syrian Arab Republic | 138 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 85 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 53 | 0.5 | 0.8 | ||
| Indonesia | 2,191 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1,513 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 678 | 0.6 | 0.6 | ||
| Jordan | 33 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 22 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 11 | 0.4 | 0.6 | ||
| Kuwait | 11 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 7 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 4 | 0.3 | 0.9 | ||
| Brunei | 2 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 1.2 | ||
| Lebanon | 34 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 19 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 15 | 0.7 | 0.6 | ||
| Lao PDR | 25 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 17 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 8 | 0.3 | 0.4 | ||
| Georgia | 48 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 33 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 15 | 0.7 | 0.3 | ||