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Table 2 Type of life table data obtained from each cancer registry: number of registries, by continent

From: Life tables for global surveillance of cancer survival (the CONCORD programme): data sources and methods

 

Type of life table data

Mortality rates

Death and population counts

No data

Total

By single year of age

By age group

By single year of age

By age group

   

Continent

No.

(%)

No.

(%)

No.

(%)

No.

(%)

No.

(%)

No.

Africa

1

(10)

9

(90)

10

America (Central and South)

1

(4)

4

(15)

19

(70)

3

(11)

27

America (North)

9

(16)

48

(84)

57

Asia

3

(6)

6

(12)

11

(22)

19

(38)

11

(22)

50

Europe

63

(49)

3

(2)

47

(37)

14

(11)

1

(1)

128

Oceania

6

(86)

1

(14)

7

Total

73

(26)

10

(4)

72

(26)

100

(36)

24

(9)

279