Table 1.

Annual mortality in COPD (2010) and lung cancer (2015)

Number of deathsa	COPD	Lung cancer	Ratio COPD/lung cancer
Global	2 837 877	1 823 929	1.55
Continents
Europe	267 451	387 913	0.69
Oceania	10 256	11 822	0.87
North America	167 299	173 278	0.96
South America	117 865	62 922	1.87
Asia	2 159 952	1 068 862	2.02
Africa	103 325	37 748	2.71

^a Source: For COPD: Burney et al. (2015).29 For lung cancer: WHO Globocan (http://www-dep.iarc.fr/WHOdb/WHOdb.htm).