Digestive cancer incidence and mortality among young adults worldwide in 2020: A population-based study

Table 1 Estimated new cases, deaths, age-standardized incidence rate, age-standardized mortality rate, and mortality-to-incidence ratio of digestive cancer among 20- to 39-year-olds worldwide in 2020 by world area

World areas	Incidence			Mortality			MIR
	Cases	%	ASIR	Deaths	%	ASMR
Asia
Eastern Asia	40966	31.26	7.70	24006	30.15	4.40	0.59
South-Central Asia	29100	22.20	4.20	20045	25.18	2.90	0.69
South-Eastern Asia	12048	9.19	5.40	7639	9.60	3.40	0.63
Western Asia	3919	2.99	3.90	2123	2.67	2.10	0.54
Americas and Caribbean
Northern America	6690	5.10	6.10	2118	2.66	1.90	0.32
South America	6321	4.82	4.30	3626	4.55	2.50	0.57
Central America	2570	1.96	4.40	1472	1.85	2.50	0.57
Caribbean	485	0.37	3.60	293	0.37	2.20	0.60
Europe
Central and Eastern Europe	3374	2.57	3.60	2136	2.68	2.20	0.63
Western Europe	2513	1.92	4.70	549	0.69	0.97	0.22
Southern Europe	1344	1.03	3.20	441	0.55	1.00	0.33
Northern Europe	1356	1.03	4.40	400	0.50	1.30	0.29
Africa
Eastern Africa	7378	5.63	5.80	5724	7.19	4.50	0.78
Northern Africa	3722	2.84	4.70	2328	2.92	3.00	0.63
Western Africa	4751	3.62	4.40	3686	4.63	3.40	0.78
Middle Africa	2483	1.89	5.20	2037	2.56	4.30	0.82
Southern Africa	1092	0.83	4.50	691	0.87	2.80	0.63
Oceania
Australia and New Zealand	721	0.55	7.80	165	0.21	1.80	0.23
Melanesia	227	0.17	6.60	132	0.17	3.80	0.58
Polynesia	5	0.00	2.70	3	0.00	1.80	0.60
Micronesia	3	0.00	2.00	0	0.00	0.00	0.00

ASIR: Age-standardized incidence rate; ASMR: Age-standardized mortality rate; MIR: Mortality-to-incidence ratio.