Estimated age-standardised mortality rates and Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) rates attributed to lung cancer in the European Union

Estimated age-standardised mortality rates and Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) rates per 100 000 population attributed to lung cancer in the European Union in 2021

Sources: ECIS- European Cancer Information System, Estimates of cancer incidence and mortality in 2022 and IHME (2024), Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Global Burden of Disease Results Tool

	MALES		FEMALES
Country	Deaths^a	DALYs^b	Deaths^a	DALYs^b
Belgium	73.8	1 805.8	34.8	833.8
Bulgaria	78.0	2 674.1	21.4	810.1
Czechia	67.2	1 682.7	31.2	841.7
Denmark	68.1	1 475.7	56.7	1 398.3
Germany	66.7	1 616.7	35.9	946.7
Estonia	93.8	1 741.5	19.7	469.9
Ireland	56.8	935.7	45.9	758.5
Greece	99.1	2 751.8	26.1	760.0
Spain	77.2	1 779.3	21.8	520.6
France	78.6	1 882.9	30.7	742.3
Croatia	110.9	2 428.3	35.9	885.3
Italy	73.3	1 680.6	29.2	709.6
Cyprus	88.2	1 053.9	26.5	298.7
Latvia	90.4	1 878.9	16.5	451.3
Lithuania	80.8	1 963.7	16.4	409.2
Luxembourg	66.4	1 284.6	38.7	628.1
Hungary	120.0	2 659.0	61.3	1 598.6
Malta	57.8	1 313.4	16.7	470.7
Netherlands	74.7	1 602.2	49.8	1 207.5
Austria	60.0	1 200.1	34.5	798.7
Poland	110.0	2 475.2	44.3	1 177.6
Portugal	68.7	1 564.2	19.8	439.8
Romania	94.1	2 300.7	25.7	691.7
Slovenia	79.0	1 763.6	41.1	849.1
Slovakia	80.5	1 758.7	24.2	499.5
Finland	51.2	1 230.9	24.2	649.5
Sweden	34.4	660.2	36.2	776.8
EU-27	77.2	1 815.8	32.8	826.7

^a Age-standardised deaths for 2022, standardised with 2013 European standard population

^b DALYs: Deaths and Disability Adjusted Life Years, based on the Global Burden of Disease 2021 study

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Estimated age-standardised mortality rates and Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) rates attributed to lung cancer in the European Union

Estimated age-standardised mortality rates and Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) rates per 100 000 population attributed to lung cancer in the European Union in 2021

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Estimated age-standardised mortality rates and Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) rates attributed to lung cancer in the European Union

Estimated age-standardised mortality rates and Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) rates per 100 000 population attributed to lung cancer in the European Union in 2021

MALES

FEMALES

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DALYsb

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