Table 1.

The incidence of esophageal cancer in registered areas in China from 2005 to 2015

Year	Gender	Number of cases	Crude oil rate (1/10 5 )	Proportion(%)	ASIR China (1/10 5 )	ASIR World (1/10 5 )
2005	All	10 738	19.55	7.57	10.24	13.84
	male	7321	26.31	9.19	14.55	19.65
	Female	3417	12.61	5.49	6.13	8.39
2006	All	11 195	18.79	6.87	9.68	13.11
	male	7653	25.50	8.39	13.83	18.77
	Female	3542	11.99	4.93	5.75	7.83
2007	All	11 877	19.86	7.19	10.14	13.71
	male	8115	26.85	8.80	14.39	19.46
	Female	3762	12.72	5.16	6.05	8.26
2008	All	13 792	20.85	6.97	9.88	13.54
	male	9556	28.66	8.68	14.26	19.55
	Female	4236	12.92	4.83	5.69	7.87
2009	All	18 924	22.14	7.74	10.88	14.81
	male	13 161	30.44	9.57	15.62	21.27
	Female	5763	13.64	5.39	6.27	8.59
2010	All	30 364	24.36	8.69	16.19	16.48
	male	21 082	33.42	10.62	23.23	23.68
	Female	9282	15.07	6.15	9.44	9.57
2011	All	33 339	22.87	8.07	14.95	15.19
	male	23 549	31.98	10.10	21.79	22.18
	Female	9790	13.58	5.45	8.37	8.46
2012	All	44 967	22.70	8.09	14.66	14.86
	male	31 733	31.62	10.16	21.35	21.66
	Female	13 234	13.55	5.43	8.23	8.30
2013	All	50 197	22.16	7.79	13.92	14.09
	male	35 414	30.83	9.82	20.25	20.55
	Female	14 783	13.24	5.21	7.79	7.84
2014	All	58 396	20.26	7.08	12.49	12.64
	male	41 755	28.56	9.11	18.41	18.69
	Female	16 641	11.72	4.54	6.74	6.77
2015	All	61 734	19.24	6.69	11.50	11.64
	male	44 067	27.07	8.64	16.94	17.19
	Female	17 667	11.17	4.28	6.21	6.24

The data comes from the annual report of the China Cancer Registry.

Abbreviations: ASIR China, age‐standardized incidence rate by Chinese population; ASIR World, age‐standardized incidence rate by world population.