2. Estimated mortality of CRC in the world’s major burden countries and China in 2018.

Area	Population	Both				Male				Female
		Deaths	Crude rate (1/105)	ASMRW (1/105)		Deaths	Crude rate (1/105)	ASMRW (1/105)		Deaths	Crude rate (1/105)	ASMRW (1/105)
CRC, colorectal cancer; ASMRW, age-standardized mortality rate by world standard population; a, Democratic Republic of Congo; b, Polynesia and Micronesia; c, Australia and New Zealand;
	World	880,792	11.5	8.9		484,224	12.6	10.8		396,568	10.5	7.2
	China	247,563	17.4	10.9		142,476	19.4	13.1		105,087	15.2	8.8
Asia
Eastern	Republic of Korea	9,762	19.1	8.7		5,445	21.3	11.8		4,317	16.9	6.3
South Eastern	Singapore	1,980	34.2	17.3		1,050	36.7	20.2		930	31.7	14.6
South Central	Kazakhstan	2,108	11.5	10.5		1,023	11.5	13.3		1,085	11.4	8.9
Western	Turkey	10,033	12.2	10.2		5,571	13.8	13.1		4,462	10.7	7.9
Europe
Western	Netherlands	6,442	37.7	13.8		3,443	40.5	16.5		2,999	35.0	11.5
Northern	Norway	1,750	32.7	13.2		915	33.8	15.3		835	31.5	11.3
Eastern	Hungary	5,076	52.4	21.5		2,867	62.2	31.2		2,209	43.5	14.8
Southern	Slovenia	740	35.6	12.5		423	40.9	17.1		317	30.3	8.9
Americas
Northern	Canada	9,494	25.7	10.1		5,086	27.7	12.2		4,408	23.7	8.2
Central	Costa Rica	617	12.5	8.6		316	12.8	9.5		301	12.2	7.7
Caribbean	Barbados	101	35.3	16.6		53	38.7	21.4		48	32.1	12.4
South	Uruguay	1,093	31.5	15.0		555	33.1	19.3		538	30.0	12.1
Africa
Northern	Algeria	3,027	7.2	7.5		1,684	7.9	8.5		1,343	6.5	6.6
Eastern	Mauritius	173	13.6	8.6		92	14.7	10.3		81	12.6	7.1
Southern	South Africa	3,664	6.4	7.6		1,898	6.7	10.2		1,766	6.0	6.1
Middle	Congoa	2,831	3.4	7.4		1,314	3.1	7.5		1,517	3.6	7.3
Western	Mali	686	3.6	8.3		290	3.0	7.3		396	4.2	9.1
Oceania
Melanesia	Papua New Guinea	447	5.3	8.7		307	7.2	14		140	3.4	4.8
Polynesiab	Samoa	13	6.6	7.8		8	7.8	10.9		5	5.2	6.3
Australiac	Australia	6,131	24.7	10.9		3,237	26.2	12.8		2,894	23.3	9.2