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. 2018 Aug 6;18:792. doi: 10.1186/s12885-018-4698-6

Table 2.

Summary of World Health Organization country rankings; total expenditure on health/GDP; life expectancy; and the kidney cancer incidence, mortality, and mortality-to-incidence ratios of selected countries

Country Ranking Total expenditure on health/GDP (%) Life expectancy Number Crude rate Age-standardized rate Mortality-to-incidence ratioa
Incidence Mortality Incidence Mortality Incidence Mortality
France 1 11.6 82 11,023 4186 17.4 6.6 9.7 2.8 0.38
Italy 2 9.2 83 11,300 4203 18.5 6.9 8.7 2.5 0.37
Malta 5 8.7 81 57 27 13.6 6.4 8.0 3.0 0.47
Singapore 6 4.2 83 401 175 7.6 3.3 5.2 2.2 0.43
Spain 7 9.3 83 6474 2295 13.8 4.9 7.9 2.2 0.36
Oman 8 2.7 76 36 21 1.2 0.7 2.1 1.4 0.58
Austria 9 11.1 81 1322 536 15.7 6.4 8.0 2.5 0.41
Japan 10 10.3 84 16,830 8124 13.3 6.4 5.3 1.9 0.48
Norway 11 9.3 82 798 263 16.1 5.3 9.3 2.5 0.33
Portugal 12 9.9 81 1004 368 9.4 3.4 5.0 1.4 0.36
Iceland 15 9.0 82 45 19 13.7 5.8 8.8 3.2 0.42
Luxembourg 16 7.2 82 70 12 13.4 2.3 8.3 0.9 0.17
Netherlands 17 12.7 81 2679 1463 16.0 8.8 8.8 4.0 0.55
United Kingdom 18 9.3 81 9714 4150 15.5 6.6 8.2 3.0 0.43
Ireland 19 8.9 81 571 230 12.5 5.0 8.4 3.0 0.40
Switzerland 20 11.4 83 948 448 12.3 5.8 6.5 2.4 0.47
Belgium 21 10.9 80 1763 728 16.3 6.7 8.7 2.7 0.41
Colombia 22 6.8 78 1048 483 2.2 1.0 2.4 1.1 0.45
Sweden 23 9.6 82 1125 635 11.8 6.7 6.4 2.6 0.57
Cyprus 24 7.3 82 46 17 4.1 1.5 3.0 1.0 0.37
Germany 25 11.3 81 18,615 7540 22.7 9.2 10.6 3.3 0.41
Israel 28 7.4 82 1002 217 13.0 2.8 10.0 1.8 0.22
Canada 30 10.9 82 5579 1739 16.1 5.0 9.3 2.5 0.31
Finland 31 9.1 81 882 333 16.3 6.2 7.9 2.4 0.38
Australia 32 8.9 83 3501 960 15.3 4.2 9.5 2.1 0.27
Chile 33 7.3 80 1353 737 7.8 4.2 6.0 3.1 0.54
Denmark 34 11.0 80 754 352 13.5 6.3 7.2 2.9 0.47
Costa Rica 36 10.1 79 179 69 3.7 1.4 3.7 1.4 0.38
United States of America 37 17.0 79 58,222 14,900 18.4 4.7 12.0 2.6 0.26
Slovenia 38 9.4 80 400 171 19.6 8.4 11.1 3.9 0.43
Cuba 39 8.6 78 517 271 4.6 2.4 3.1 1.5 0.52
New Zealand 41 10.2 82 586 198 13.1 4.4 8.2 2.4 0.34
Bahrain 46 4.4 77 23 7 1.7 0.5 2.6 1.0 0.29
Thailand 47 4.5 75 1017 632 1.5 0.9 1.2 0.7 0.60
Czech Republic 48 7.5 78 3313 1095 31.4 10.4 16.7 4.8 0.33
Malaysia 49 4.0 74 611 255 2.1 0.9 2.4 1.0 0.43
Poland 50 6.8 77 5244 2721 13.7 7.1 8.1 3.7 0.52
Jamaica 53 5.6 74 31 20 1.1 0.7 1.1 0.7 0.64
Korea, Republic of 58 7.6 82 5651 1264 11.6 2.6 8.0 1.6 0.22
Philippines 60 4.4 69 1008 600 1.0 0.6 1.4 0.9 0.60
Slovakia 62 8.1 76 1063 388 19.4 7.1 12.5 4.2 0.37
Egypt 63 4.9 71 1740 1275 2.1 1.5 2.4 1.8 0.71
Uruguay 65 8.6 77 465 243 13.7 7.2 9.4 4.4 0.53
Trinidad and Tobago 67 5.5 71 32 18 2.4 1.3 2.3 1.1 0.54
Belarus 72 5.0 72 1575 637 16.5 6.7 11.1 4.1 0.41
Lithuania 73 6.7 74 773 309 23.5 9.4 13.2 4.9 0.40
Argentina 75 6.8 76 4068 1998 9.9 4.9 8.0 3.6 0.49
Estonia 77 5.9 77 284 142 21.2 10.6 11.7 4.6 0.50
Ukraine 79 7.5 71 5240 2542 11.7 5.7 7.5 3.4 0.49
Mauritius 84 4.8 74 53 25 4.0 1.9 4.2 2.2 0.48
Fiji 96 4.0 70 4 3 0.5 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.60
Bulgaria 102 7.4 75 881 470 11.9 6.4 6.9 3.3 0.54
Latvia 105 5.9 74 449 225 20.1 10.1 10.9 4.7 0.50
Ecuador 111 6.4 76 403 216 2.7 1.5 2.9 1.5 0.56
Brazil 125 9.5 75 6255 3291 3.2 1.7 3.0 1.5 0.53
Russian Federation 130 6.5 69 19,313 9025 13.5 6.3 8.9 3.8 0.47
South African Republic 175 8.9 60 506 420 1.0 0.8 1.2 1.1 0.80

athe percentage in the ratio of the crude rate of mortalities and the crude rate of incidences