Table 3.

The estimated incidence and mortality of bladder cancer according to world area, 2012, Females.

World regions	Population size Female (thousands)	New cases		Mortality		Mortality to incidence ratio
		n	ASR	n	ASR
Africa	549 608	6752	2.1	3906	1.2	0.57
Eastern Africa	182 469	1961	2.0	1290	1.3	0.65
Middle Africa	69 644	441	1.3	300	0.9	0.69
Northern Africa	105 353	2708	3.2	1337	1.6	0.50
Southern Africa	30 816	483	1.9	225	0.9	0.47
Western Africa	161 327	1159	1.3	754	0.9	0.69
Asia	2 081 150	32922	1.4	16478	0.6	0.43
Eastern Asia	777 374	20789	1.6	10220	0.7	0.44
South-Eastern Asia	306 008	3034	1.0	1517	0.5	0.50
South-Central Asia	881 514	6159	0.8	3441	0.5	0.63
Western Asia	116 253	2940	3.1	1300	1.3	0.42
America	310 360	7234	2.0	3069	0.8	0.40
Caribbean	21 313	542	1.8	284	0.9	0.50
Central America	83 632	1430	1.8	535	0.6	0.33
South America	205 415	5262	2.1	2250	0.9	0.43
North America	176 585	18660	5.1	5307	1.2	0.24
Europe	381 747	32932	3.5	12889	1.1	0.31
Central and Eastern Europe	155 701	8904	2.7	3543	0.9	0.33
Northern Europe	51 252	4645	3.6	2391	1.5	0.42
Southern Europe	78 393	8049	3.8	3001	1.0	0.26
Western Europe	96 400	11334	4.3	3954	1.1	0.26
Oceania	18 746	913	2.7	384	1.0	0.37
Australia/New Zealand	13 715	887	2.9	366	1.0	0.34
Melanesia	4 451	21	0.7	13	0.4	0.57
Micronesia/Polynesia	580	5	0.9	5	0.9	1.00
More developed regions	637 294	57766	3.7	21024	1.1	0.30
Less developed regions	2 880 901	41647	1.5	21009	0.7	0.47
World	3 518 195	99413	2.2	42033	0.9	0.41

ASR = Age standardized rate per 100,000. Source: GLOBOCAN 2012¹. Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10 or 100, and may not add up to the total. The population size of the world regions were retrieved from the Population Reference Bureau, Washington, DC. Available at: http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2012/world-population-data-sheet/world-map.aspx#/table/population.