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. 2022 Oct 28;22:1979. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14412-1

Table 3.

Worldwide incidence and rates by SDI and regions for the 29 cancer types in 1990 and 2019 in adults over 75 years old and the change in the trends from 1990 to 2019

1990 2019 1990–2019
EAPC
No. (95% CI)
Incidence case Rate Per 100,000 Incidence case Rate Per 100,000
Sex
Male 1,196,378 2675.84 3,808,334 3302.68 0.75(0.82–0.67)
Female 1,167,324 1614.05 2,937,926 1821.66 0.37(0.47–0.27)
Socio-demographic index
High SDI 1,502,694 3564.95 4,054,431 4879.06 1.11(1.18–1.05)
High-middle SDI 497,666 1489.78 1,321,779 1832.94 0.71(0.81–0.61)
Middle SDI 237,209 1002.61 869,284 1226.38 0.90(1.02–0.77)
Low-middle SDI 92,668 713.75 321,938 843.02 0.51(0.66–0.36)
Low SDI 32,412 679.75 86,092 707.80 0.39(0.55–0.23)
Region
Africa
 Central Sub-Saharan Africa 3013 826.99 8526 811.14 -0.15(-0.01–0.30)
 Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa 11,081 711.61 29,604 804.88 0.41(0.56–0.26)
 Western Sub-Saharan Africa 15,064 724.72 42,000 947.27 1.18(1.32–1.03)
 Southern Sub-Saharan Africa 8383 1138.75 19,819 1317.37 0.31(0.42–0.20)
 North Africa and Middle East 30,839 783.82 116,933 1051.80 1.33(1.47–1.19)
America
Andean Latin America 7586 1250.06 30,461 1592.90 0.93(1.03–0.82)
Caribbean 12,805 1451.73 32,474 1721.31 0.67(0.77–0.56)
Central Latin America 30,385 1278.14 111,427 1409.05 0.19(0.30–0.08)
High-income North America 861,876 5938.18 2,504,561 10,039.24 2.09(2.14–2.05)
Southern Latin America 27,506 1787.97 65,153 2009.12 0.30(0.40–0.20)
Tropical Latin America 38,592 1603.37 137,467 1720.26 0.33(0.43–0.24)
Asia
Central Asia 13,152 917.06 18,940 1123.02 1.13(1.26–1.00)
East Asia 233,569 1161.09 1,054,014 1682.69 1.41(1.53–1.30)
High-income Asia Pacific 138,754 2051.03 530,610 2375.63 0.56(0.65–0.48)
South Asia 64,304 590.04 247,053 651.39 0.11(0.27–0.06)
Southeast Asia 42,909 724.64 150,662 953.43 0.88(1.03–0.74)
Europe
Central Europe 77,398 1510.93 166,601 1921.53 0.94(1.04–0.84)
Eastern Europe 105,504 1075.85 160,626 1228.98 0.63(0.75–0.51)
Western Europe 599,742 2395.00 1,198,818 2814.76 0.48(0.56–0.40)
Oceania
Australasia 40,857 4639.68 119,373 5781.98 0.68(0.73–0.62)
Other Oceania countries 386 762.65 1138 877.43 0.54(0.68–0.39)

EAPC estimated annual percentage change