Lung cancer is the second most common cancer worldwide [1].
It is the most common cancer in men and the second most common cancer in women [1].
Number of lung cancer deaths in different countries
According to data from the World Health Organization, the number of deaths from the trachea, bronchi and lungs in 2022, countries are ordered from high to low by the number of deaths [2] :
| nation | death toll |
| worldwide | 1,816,600 |
| China | 733,291 |
| USA | 127,653 |
| Japan | 83,243 |
| India | 75,031 |
| The Russian Federation | 51,887 |
| Germany | 47,731 |
| Türkiye | 38,505 |
| Brazil | 38,292 |
| France | 36,876 |
| Italy | 35,668 |
| U.K. | 35,394 |
| Indonesia | 34,339 |
| Poland | 26,035 |
| Spain | 23,297 |
| Canada | 22,970 |
| Vietnam | 22,597 |
| South Korea | 22,474 |
| the Philippines | 20,953 |
| Thailand | 19,864 |
| Ukraine | 14,115 |
| Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 12,432 |
| Bengal | 12,063 |
| Dutch | 10,896 |
| Argentina | 10,673 |
| Romania | 10,530 |
| islamic republic of iran | 9,895 |
| Australia | 9,191 |
| South Africa | 8,672 |
| Hungary | 8,462 |
| Pakistan | 8,307 |
| Myanmar | 8,145 |
| Morocco | 7,970 |
| Mexico | 7,808 |
| Greece | 7,156 |
| Egypt | 6,805 |
| Colombia | 6,124 |
| Belgium | 6,102 |
| cuba | 6,066 |
| Serbia | 5,818 |
| Portugal | 5,077 |
| Czech Republic | 5,006 |
| Malaysia | 4,783 |
| Venezuela | 4,617 |
| Algeria | 4,599 |
| Austria | 4,259 |
| Chile | 3,944 |
| belarus | 3,824 |
| Sweden | 3,816 |
| Denmark | 3,738 |
| Kazakhstan | 3,688 |
| Switzerland | 3,556 |
| Bulgaria | 3,435 |
| Croatia | 2,951 |
| Tunisia | 2,787 |
| Singapore | 2,747 |
| Peru | 2,630 |
| Iraq | 2,613 |
| syrian arab republic | 2,517 |
| Norway | 2,497 |
| Ethiopia | 2,421 |
| Finland | 2,289 |
| Slovakia | 2,283 |
| Nepal | 2,207 |
| Uzbekistan | 2,137 |
| New Zealand | 2,122 |
| Sri Lanka | 2,035 |
| Ireland | 2,020 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2,002 |
| Israel | 1,958 |
| Azerbaijan | 1,954 |
| Cambodia | 1,913 |
| Uruguay | 1,574 |
| Nigeria | 1,561 |
| lebanon | 1,408 |
| Dominican Republic | 1,379 |
| Afghanistan | 1,318 |
| Georgia | 1,317 |
| slovenia | 1,312 |
| Albania | 1,264 |
| moldova | 1,263 |
| Lithuania | 1,241 |
| Armenia | 1,187 |
| Ecuador | 1,145 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1,048 |
| North Macedonia | 1,002 |
| Bolivia | 1,001 |
| Jordan | 967 |
| Democratic People's Republic of the Congo | 920 |
| Latvia | 878 |
| Libya | 857 |
| Lao People's Democratic Republic | 853 |
| Kenya | 822 |
| Paraguay | 772 |
| Yemen | 749 |
| united republic of tanzania | 693 |
| Estonia | 653 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 636 |
| Sudan | 623 |
| Puerto Rico | 608 |
| papua new guinea | 553 |
| Gaza and the West Bank | 543 |
| Cyprus | 532 |
| Guatemala | 512 |
| Haiti | 509 |
| Ghana | 492 |
| Uganda | 480 |
| Turkmenistan | 464 |
| jamaica | 461 |
| Mongolia | 436 |
| costa rica | 400 |
| Zimbabwe | 394 |
| Honduras | 392 |
| Cameroon | 366 |
| Montenegro | 356 |
| El Salvador | 348 |
| Burkina Faso | 340 |
| Nicaragua | 311 |
| Angola | 309 |
| Tajik | 309 |
| Panama | 306 |
| madagascar | 305 |
| France, Reunion Island | 299 |
| Cote d'Ivoire | 293 |
| Mali | 289 |
| Luxembourg | 268 |
| somalia | 252 |
| Guinea | 241 |
| Senegal | 240 |
| United Arab Emirates | 221 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 216 |
| Mozambique | 205 |
| Rwanda | 204 |
| Zambia | 204 |
| Kuwait | 178 |
| Mauritius | 176 |
| malta | 174 |
| Burundi | 167 |
| Chad | 153 |
| Oman | 146 |
| French Polynesia | 136 |
| Malawi | 129 |
| new caledonia | 127 |
| Iceland | 121 |
| South Sudan | 120 |
| Niger | 101 |
| Benin | 94 |
| Surinam | 93 |
| France, Guadeloupe | 92 |
| Brunei Darussalam | 91 |
| Liberia | 83 |
| Namibia | 83 |
| Guam | 82 |
| East Timor | 81 |
| Qatar | 81 |
| France, Martinique | 79 |
| Bahrain | 77 |
| togo | 71 |
| Eritrea | 63 |
| Lesotho | 61 |
| Botswana | 59 |
| Fiji | 58 |
| Republic of Gambia | 55 |
| Bhutan | 51 |
| mauritania | 51 |
| Sierra Leone | 48 |
| Barbados | 46 |
| central african republic | 44 |
| Maldives | 42 |
| Gabon | 41 |
| Samoa | 40 |
| Bahamas | 36 |
| the republic of Congo | 36 |
| French Guiana | 35 |
| Guyana | 34 |
| Eswatini | 29 |
| Belize | 26 |
| solomon islands | twenty three |
| Djibouti | twenty two |
| Guinea-Bissau | twenty two |
| saint lucia | twenty one |
| Equatorial Guinea | 19 |
| sao tome and principe | 16 |
| Vanuatu | 15 |
| Comoros | 9 |
| cape verde | 7 |
Data from other sources:
United States 2023: estimated 127,070 people[3]
China 2020: estimated 2,397,772 people[4]
India 2020: estimated 66,279 people[5]
Russia 2020: estimated 54,000[6]
Australia 2021: 8,674 people[7]
Indonesia per year: estimated 31,000[8]
Pakistan Yearly: estimated 19,000[9]
Hong Kong in 2022: 3,782 people[10]
Taiwan in 2022: 10,053 people[11]
Lung cancer mortality rates by country
Age-Standardized Rate (ASR) is a summary measure of the rates observed when a population has a standard age structure. The most commonly used standard population is the World (W) standard population. The calculated incidence or mortality rate is called the age-standardized incidence or mortality rate (W) and is expressed per 100,000 person-years.
Tracheal, bronchial and pulmonary mortality in 2022, according to the World Health Organization. Countries are ranked from highest to lowest mortality rate [2] :
| nation | Mortality rate (age-standardized rate) per 100,000 people/year |
| Hungary | 39.8 |
| Türkiye | 35.1 |
| French Polynesia | 35.0 |
| Serbia | 33.4 |
| Democratic People's Republic of Korea | 32.1 |
| new caledonia | 31.0 |
| Poland | 30.5 |
| Guam | 30.3 |
| Montenegro | 30.2 |
| Croatia | 29.6 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 28.2 |
| North Macedonia | 26.8 |
| China | 26.7 |
| Romania | 26.6 |
| Uruguay | 25.4 |
| slovenia | 25.4 |
| Samoa | 25.0 |
| Greece | 24.6 |
| Denmark | 24.5 |
| cuba | 24.3 |
| France | 24.2 |
| Albania | 24.2 |
| Armenia | 23.7 |
| Dutch | 23.6 |
| Bulgaria | 22.9 |
| Cyprus | 22.4 |
| Singapore | 22.2 |
| Canada | 21.5 |
| Germany | 21.4 |
| Belgium | 21.4 |
| the Philippines | 21.3 |
| belarus | 21.1 |
| Brunei Darussalam | 21.1 |
| Luxembourg | 20.7 |
| Spain | 20.3 |
| Estonia | 20.1 |
| Czech Republic | 19.8 |
| Lithuania | 19.8 |
| Latvia | 19.7 |
| Austria | 19.5 |
| U.K. | 19.4 |
| New Zealand | 19.4 |
| Ireland | 19.4 |
| Slovakia | 19.3 |
| moldova | 19.0 |
| Gaza and the West Bank | 18.9 |
| Vietnam | 18.7 |
| The Russian Federation | 18.6 |
| Morocco | 18.5 |
| Portugal | 18.5 |
| France, Reunion Island | 18.5 |
| Tunisia | 18.1 |
| Georgia | 18.1 |
| Italy | 18.0 |
| lebanon | 17.8 |
| Norway | 17.6 |
| syrian arab republic | 17.2 |
| Ukraine | 17.0 |
| South Africa | 16.9 |
| South Korea | 16.7 |
| USA | 16.6 |
| Kazakhstan | 16.4 |
| Mongolia | 16.4 |
| Azerbaijan | 16.2 |
| Argentina | 16.1 |
| Switzerland | 15.9 |
| Australia | 15.6 |
| Lao People's Democratic Republic | 15.6 |
| Iceland | 15.4 |
| Libya | 15.2 |
| Thailand | 15.0 |
| malta | 14.9 |
| Myanmar | 14.8 |
| Japan | 14.2 |
| Finland | 14.1 |
| Cambodia | 14.0 |
| Surinam | 13.7 |
| Israel | 13.6 |
| Venezuela | 13.3 |
| Sweden | 13.3 |
| Jordan | 13.3 |
| Malaysia | 13.1 |
| sao tome and principe | 12.7 |
| Brazil | 12.5 |
| French Guiana | 12.3 |
| Indonesia | 11.9 |
| jamaica | 11.8 |
| Maldives | 11.7 |
| Iraq | 11.6 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 11.4 |
| Chile | 11.3 |
| islamic republic of iran | 11.0 |
| Dominican Republic | 10.9 |
| Paraguay | 10.7 |
| France, Guadeloupe | 10.5 |
| Algeria | 10.4 |
| papua new guinea | 9.6 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 9.5 |
| East Timor | 9.1 |
| Turkmenistan | 8.7 |
| Bahrain | 8.6 |
| Colombia | 8.5 |
| Nepal | 8.4 |
| Bengal | 8.2 |
| Belize | 8.1 |
| France, Martinique | 8.0 |
| Egypt | 7.9 |
| saint lucia | 7.9 |
| Mauritius | 7.8 |
| Vanuatu | 7.7 |
| Puerto Rico | 7.5 |
| Barbados | 7.5 |
| Bolivia | 7.3 |
| Uzbekistan | 7.1 |
| Bhutan | 7.0 |
| Bahamas | 7.0 |
| Afghanistan | 6.8 |
| Fiji | 6.6 |
| Sri Lanka | 6.1 |
| Peru | 6.0 |
| Kuwait | 5.8 |
| Haiti | 5.5 |
| Zimbabwe | 5.5 |
| Namibia | 5.5 |
| United Arab Emirates | 5.4 |
| India | 5.3 |
| Pakistan | 5.3 |
| Ecuador | 5.3 |
| Qatar | 5.3 |
| solomon islands | 5.3 |
| Panama | 5.2 |
| Mexico | 5.1 |
| Nicaragua | 5.1 |
| Republic of Gambia | 5.0 |
| costa rica | 4.9 |
| Honduras | 4.9 |
| Tajik | 4.9 |
| Oman | 4.9 |
| El Salvador | 4.2 |
| Eswatini | 4.1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 3.9 |
| Yemen | 3.9 |
| Lesotho | 3.8 |
| Guyana | 3.8 |
| Burkina Faso | 3.7 |
| Ethiopia | 3.6 |
| Guatemala | 3.5 |
| Botswana | 3.4 |
| somalia | 3.3 |
| Guinea | 3.2 |
| Burundi | 3.2 |
| Kenya | 3.1 |
| Mali | 3.1 |
| Cameroon | 2.9 |
| Gabon | 2.9 |
| Zambia | 2.8 |
| Eritrea | 2.8 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 2.7 |
| Uganda | 2.6 |
| Rwanda | 2.6 |
| Liberia | 2.6 |
| Djibouti | 2.6 |
| Senegal | 2.5 |
| Sudan | 2.4 |
| Ghana | 2.4 |
| united republic of tanzania | 2.2 |
| Angola | 2.2 |
| Cote d'Ivoire | 2.2 |
| Democratic People's Republic of the Congo | 2.0 |
| South Sudan | 2.0 |
| central african republic | 2.0 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 2.0 |
| madagascar | 1.9 |
| Chad | 1.9 |
| mauritania | 1.8 |
| Comoros | 1.8 |
| togo | 1.7 |
| Nigeria | 1.6 |
| Malawi | 1.5 |
| cape verde | 1.5 |
| Benin | 1.4 |
| Mozambique | 1.3 |
| the republic of Congo | 1.3 |
| Sierra Leone | 1.2 |
| Niger | 0.9 |
| worldwide | 16.8 |
Data from other sources:
at Hong Kong. In 2022, the age-standardized death rate from lung cancer per 100,000 standard population will be 29.7 for men and 14.0 for women [10] .
in Taiwan. In 2022, the standardized mortality rate of lung cancer will be 21.8 per 100,000 people [11] .
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