Lung cancer mortality and years of potential life lost among males and females over six decades in a country with high smoking prevalence: an observational study

Table 1 Lung cancer deaths

Year	Women					Men
	N	Lung cancer deaths/100,000 population	% of all female deaths age ≥ 35	Mean age at death	YPLL^a	N	Lung cancer deaths/100,000 population	% of all male deaths age ≥ 35	Mean age at death	YPLL^a	Lung cancer deaths women : men
1952	1,322	9.38	0.55	63.9	6.6	6,261	55.83	2.63	61.6	7.3	0.21
1955	1,531	10.47	0.60	64.1	7.3	7,873	69.02	3.02	62.6	7.0	0.19
1958	1,731	11.30	0.65	64.5	7.3	10,231	87.98	3.75	63.1	6.7	0.17
1961	2,067	12.94	0.74	65.0	7.3	12,402	103.88	4.32	64.1	5.8	0.17
1964	2,702	16.49	0.93	66.3	6.5	15,605	126.14	5.21	65.3	4.7	0.17
1967	2,835	17.05	0.89	67.2	6.3	16,990	134.62	5.34	66.3	4.2	0.17
1970	2,799	16.65	0.80	67.8	6.3	17,847	137.29	5.27	67.0	3.6	0.16
1973	2,861	16.57	0.82	68.4	6.3	19,136	140.68	5.64	67.9	2.9	0.15
1976	3,310	18.70	0.92	69.2	6.1	20,187	143.47	5.96	68.4	2.6	0.16
1979	3,680	20.57	1.04	69.9	6.1	20,574	143.50	6.29	68.8	2.5	0.18
1982	4,100	22.90	1.13	70.2	6.6	21,138	146.47	6.48	68.8	2.9	0.19
1985	4,537	25.14	1.25	70.4	7.4	21,662	147.58	6.77	68.5	3.8	0.21
1988	5,232	28.52	1.46	70.5	7.9	22,141	144.66	7.17	68.3	4.2	0.24
1991	7,218	30.72	1.50	70.1	8.7	27,720	139.81	6.89	67.7	4.6	0.26
1994	8,023	33.26	1.72	70.0	9.4	28,038	135.08	7.15	67.7	4.4	0.29
1997	8,754	35.20	1.92	69.8	10.0	28,424	130.51	7.41	68.0	4.4	0.31
2000	9,817	38.21	2.21	69.8	10.5	29,112	127.14	7.72	68.3	4.3	0.34
2003	10,626	40.15	2.35	69.8	10.9	28,632	119.69	7.42	68.8	4.1	0.37
2006	11,855	43.99	2.75	69.8	11.1	28,872	117.33	7.64	69.5	4.0	0.41
2009	13,088	48.44	2.94	70.1	11.1	29,132	117.46	7.33	70.2	4.2	0.45
2012	14,724	54.28	3.27	70.5	11.3	29,684	118.28	7.25	70.9	4.4	0.50

Death from cancer of the trachea, bronchus and lung; age ≥ 35 years, Federal Republic of Germany, since 1991 including death cases from West Germany and former East Germany; ICD-10 categories C33 and C34 (since 1998), ICD-8 and ICD-9 category 162 (1968–1997), ICD-6 and ICD-7 category 223 (1952–1967)
N number of deaths
^aYPLL: Years of potential life lost, calculated as mean age at death among the female or male population at age ≥ 35 without lung cancer deaths minus the mean age at death of the lung cancer deaths, per calendar year

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