Table 2. Number, crude, and standardized mortality rate of esophageal cancer in Asian countries in 2012 (sorted by age standardized rates of both sexes from highest to lowest).
| Population | Esophagus: estimated mortality |
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| All ages: both sexes |
All ages: female |
All ages: male |
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| Numbers | Crude rate | ASR (W) | Numbers | Crude rate | ASR (W) | Numbers | Crude rate | ASR (W) | |||
| Turkmenistan | 663 | 12.8 | 18.5 | 356 | 14.0 | 22.7 | 307 | 11.7 | 15.2 | ||
| Mongolia | 278 | 9.8 | 15.5 | 148 | 10.5 | 18.9 | 130 | 9.0 | 13.0 | ||
| Tajikistan | 527 | 7.4 | 13.6 | 313 | 9.0 | 18.3 | 214 | 5.9 | 9.9 | ||
| Bangladesh | 12,909 | 8.5 | 11.7 | 7,925 | 10.3 | 14.7 | 4,984 | 6.6 | 8.9 | ||
| China | 197,472 | 14.5 | 10.9 | 140,329 | 19.9 | 16.2 | 57,143 | 8.7 | 5.8 | ||
| Kazakhstan | 1,555 | 9.5 | 9.3 | 891 | 11.3 | 14.7 | 664 | 7.8 | 6.0 | ||
| Afghanistan | 1,217 | 3.6 | 9.0 | 738 | 4.3 | 11.1 | 479 | 3.0 | 7.0 | ||
| Islamic Republic of Iran | 4,915 | 6.5 | 7.8 | 2,662 | 6.9 | 8.2 | 2,253 | 6.0 | 7.4 | ||
| Myanmar | 3,207 | 6.6 | 7.1 | 2,273 | 9.5 | 10.7 | 934 | 3.8 | 3.9 | ||
| Uzbekistan | 1,094 | 3.9 | 5.6 | 582 | 4.2 | 6.7 | 512 | 3.6 | 4.7 | ||
| Bhutan | 31 | 4.1 | 5.5 | 18 | 4.5 | 6.2 | 13 | 3.7 | 4.8 | ||
| Sri Lanka | 1,302 | 6.1 | 5.1 | 618 | 5.9 | 5.2 | 684 | 6.4 | 5.0 | ||
| Kyrgyzstan | 172 | 3.2 | 4.5 | 98 | 3.6 | 6.3 | 74 | 2.7 | 3.1 | ||
| Democratic Republic of Korea | 1,396 | 5.7 | 4.4 | 1,039 | 8.6 | 8.1 | 357 | 2.9 | 1.7 | ||
| Maldives | 10 | 3.1 | 4.3 | 7 | 4.3 | 6.0 | 3 | 1.9 | 2.6 | ||
| Azerbaijan | 404 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 233 | 5.0 | 5.8 | 171 | 3.6 | 3.0 | ||
| Yemen | 431 | 1.7 | 4.1 | 192 | 1.5 | 4.2 | 239 | 1.9 | 4.1 | ||
| Pakistan | 4,748 | 2.6 | 3.8 | 2,241 | 2.5 | 3.6 | 2,507 | 2.8 | 4.0 | ||
| India | 38,683 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 25,170 | 3.9 | 5.0 | 13,513 | 2.2 | 2.6 | ||
| Japan | 12,440 | 9.8 | 3.5 | 10,443 | 17.0 | 6.5 | 1,997 | 3.1 | 0.9 | ||
| Turkey | 2,340 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 1,288 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 1,052 | 2.8 | 2.7 | ||
| Viet Nam | 2,577 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 2,269 | 5.1 | 5.5 | 308 | 0.7 | 0.6 | ||
| Nepal | 466 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 303 | 2.0 | 3.4 | 163 | 1.0 | 1.5 | ||
| Cambodia | 222 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 150 | 2.1 | 4.0 | 72 | 1.0 | 1.3 | ||
| Thailand | 2,061 | 2.9 | 2.2 | 1,675 | 4.9 | 4.0 | 386 | 1.1 | 0.8 | ||
| Qatar | 13 | 0.7 | 2.2 | 9 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 4 | 0.9 | 3.0 | ||
| United Arab Emirates | 39 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 23 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 16 | 0.6 | 2.5 | ||
| Republic of Korea | 1,551 | 3.2 | 1.9 | 1,415 | 5.8 | 4.1 | 136 | 0.6 | 0.2 | ||
| Timor-Leste | 10 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 8 | 1.3 | 2.6 | 2 | 0.3 | 0.8 | ||
| State of Palestine | 29 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 21 | 1.0 | 2.3 | 8 | 0.4 | 0.8 | ||
| Singapore | 126 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 99 | 3.7 | 2.6 | 27 | 1.0 | 0.6 | ||
| Oman | 21 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 14 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 7 | 0.6 | 1.2 | ||
| Malaysia | 328 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 210 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 118 | 0.8 | 1.0 | ||
| Saudi Arabia | 210 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 113 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 97 | 0.8 | 1.3 | ||
| Armenia | 58 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 37 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 21 | 1.3 | 0.6 | ||
| Iraq | 176 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 92 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 84 | 0.5 | 0.9 | ||
| Philippines | 623 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 449 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 174 | 0.4 | 0.5 | ||
| Kuwait | 15 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 9 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 6 | 0.5 | 1.2 | ||
| Syrian Arab Republic | 130 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 79 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 51 | 0.5 | 0.7 | ||
| Israel | 118 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 69 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 49 | 1.3 | 0.6 | ||
| Indonesia | 2,023 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1,394 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 629 | 0.5 | 0.5 | ||
| Jordan | 32 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 21 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 11 | 0.4 | 0.6 | ||
| Bahrain | 6 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 5 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||
| 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 | 45 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 31 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 14 | 0.6 | 0.3 | ||