Favorable gallbladder cancer mortality-to-incidence ratios of countries with good ranking of world’s health system and high expenditures on health

Table 1 Summary of the case number, rates and mortality-to-incidence ratio of the incidence and mortality according to regions in gallbladder cancer

Region	Number		Crude rate		Age-standardized rate		Mortality-to-incidence ratio^a
Region	Incidence	Mortality	Incidence	Mortality	Incidence	Mortality	Mortality-to-incidence ratio^a
World	178,101	142,823	2.5	2.0	2.2	1.7	0.80
Development
More developed regions	62,535	44,843	5.0	3.6	2.1	1.4	0.72
Less developed regions	115,566	97,980	2.0	1.7	2.2	1.8	0.85
WHO region categories
WHO Africa region	2762	2597	0.3	0.3	0.6	0.6	1.00
WHO Americas region	25,857	17,240	2.7	1.8	2.0	1.3	0.67
WHO East Mediterranean region	5509	5133	0.9	0.8	1.3	1.2	0.89
WHO Europe region	31,409	22,352	3.5	2.5	1.7	1.2	0.71
WHO South-East Asia region	31,003	27,002	1.7	1.5	1.9	1.7	0.88
WHO Western Pacific region	81,549	68,486	4.4	3.7	3.1	2.5	0.84
Continent
Africa	4559	4271	0.4	0.4	0.7	0.7	1.00
Latin America and Caribbean	15,278	12,935	2.5	2.1	2.4	2.0	0.84
Northern America	10,579	4305	3.0	1.2	1.6	0.6	0.40
Asia	117,076	100,020	2.8	2.4	2.6	2.2	0.86
Europe	29,744	20,887	4.0	2.8	1.8	1.2	0.70
Oceania	865	405	2.3	1.1	1.5	0.7	0.48

^athe percentage in the ratio of the crude rate of mortalities and the crude rate of incidences

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