Table 2 The estimated incidence and mortality of bladder cancer according to world area, 2012, males.

World regions	Population size Male (thousands)	New cases		Mortality		Mortality to incidence ratio
World regions	Population size Male (thousands)	n	ASR	n	ASR	Mortality to incidence ratio
Africa	549,445	17685	6.3	9362	3.5	0.56
Eastern Africa	180,243	2824	3.3	1819	2.2	0.67
Middle Africa	69,179	610	2.2	420	1.6	0.73
Northern Africa	106,147	11225	15.1	5489	7.6	0.50
Southern Africa	29,735	1285	7.5	494	3.0	0.40
Western Africa	164,141	1741	2.1	1140	1.5	0.71
Asia	2,179,003	115646	5.5	52816	2.5	0.45
Eastern Asia	813,296	64662	5.8	27271	2.3	0.40
South-Eastern Asia	305,225	10784	4.3	5352	2.2	0.51
South-Central Asia	933,786	24415	3.6	13413	2.0	0.56
Western Asia	126,697	15785	19.0	6780	8.4	0.44
America	303,514	17610	6.1	7078	2.4	0.39
Caribbean	20,951	1839	7.6	773	3.0	0.39
Central America	82,227	2327	3.4	867	1.2	0.35
South America	200,336	13444	6.9	5438	2.7	0.39
North America	173,209	58089	19.5	13285	4.0	0.21
Europe	355,275	118365	17.7	39522	5.2	0.29
Central and Eastern Europe	138,249	30871	15.1	13231	6.1	0.40
Northern Europe	49,574	12722	12.4	5174	4.4	0.35
Southern Europe	74,900	34786	21.8	11653	6.0	0.28
Western Europe	92,553	39986	19.7	9464	4.0	0.20
Oceania	18,859	2985	10.6	988	3.2	0.30
Australia/New Zealand	13,632	2868	11.3	939	3.3	0.29
Melanesia	4,628	84	3.5	43	2.0	0.57
Micronesia/Polynesia	258	33	6.5	6	1.2	0.18
More developed regions	604,008	196077	16.9	58914	4.5	0.27
Less developed regions	2,975,297	134303	5.3	64137	2.6	0.49
World	3,579,305	330380	9.0	123051	3.2	0.36

ASR = Age standardized rate per 100,000. Source: GLOBOCAN 2012¹. Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10 or 100, and may not add up to the total. The population size of the world regions were retrieved from the Population Reference Bureau, Washington, DC. Available at: http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2012/world-population-data-sheet/world-map.aspx#/table/population.

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