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

Sex

Male

1,196,378

3,808,334

0.75(0.82–0.67)

Female

1,167,324

2,937,926

0.37(0.47–0.27)

Socio-demographic index

High SDI

1,502,694

4,054,431

1.11(1.18–1.05)

High-middle SDI

497,666

1,321,779

0.71(0.81–0.61)

Middle SDI

237,209

869,284

0.90(1.02–0.77)

Low-middle SDI

92,668

321,938

0.51(0.66–0.36)

Low SDI

32,412

86,092

0.39(0.55–0.23)

Region

Africa

 Central Sub-Saharan Africa

3013

8526

-0.15(-0.01–0.30)

 Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa

11,081

29,604

0.41(0.56–0.26)

 Western Sub-Saharan Africa

15,064

42,000

1.18(1.32–1.03)

 Southern Sub-Saharan Africa

8383

19,819

0.31(0.42–0.20)

 North Africa and Middle East

30,839

116,933

1.33(1.47–1.19)

America

Andean Latin America

7586

30,461

0.93(1.03–0.82)

Caribbean

12,805

32,474

0.67(0.77–0.56)

Central Latin America

30,385

111,427

0.19(0.30–0.08)

High-income North America

861,876

2,504,561

2.09(2.14–2.05)

Southern Latin America

27,506

65,153

0.30(0.40–0.20)

Tropical Latin America

38,592

137,467

0.33(0.43–0.24)

Asia

Central Asia

13,152

18,940

1.13(1.26–1.00)

East Asia

233,569

1,054,014

1.41(1.53–1.30)

High-income Asia Pacific

138,754

530,610

0.56(0.65–0.48)

South Asia

64,304

247,053

0.11(0.27–0.06)

Southeast Asia

42,909

150,662

0.88(1.03–0.74)

Europe

Central Europe

77,398

166,601

0.94(1.04–0.84)

Eastern Europe

105,504

160,626

0.63(0.75–0.51)

Western Europe

599,742

1,198,818

0.48(0.56–0.40)

Oceania

Australasia

40,857

119,373

0.68(0.73–0.62)

Other Oceania countries

386

1138

0.54(0.68–0.39)