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Table 2 Summary of World Health Organization country rankings; total expenditure on health/GDP; life expectancy; and the kidney cancer incidence, mortality, and mortality-to-incidence ratios of selected countries

From: Favorable mortality-to-incidence ratios of kidney Cancer are associated with advanced health care systems

Country

Ranking

Total expenditure on health/GDP (%)

Life expectancy

Number

Crude rate

Age-standardized rate

Mortality-to-incidence ratioa

Incidence

Mortality

Incidence

Mortality

Incidence

Mortality

France

1

11.6

82

11,023

4186

17.4

6.6

9.7

2.8

0.38

Italy

2

9.2

83

11,300

4203

18.5

6.9

8.7

2.5

0.37

Malta

5

8.7

81

57

27

13.6

6.4

8.0

3.0

0.47

Singapore

6

4.2

83

401

175

7.6

3.3

5.2

2.2

0.43

Spain

7

9.3

83

6474

2295

13.8

4.9

7.9

2.2

0.36

Oman

8

2.7

76

36

21

1.2

0.7

2.1

1.4

0.58

Austria

9

11.1

81

1322

536

15.7

6.4

8.0

2.5

0.41

Japan

10

10.3

84

16,830

8124

13.3

6.4

5.3

1.9

0.48

Norway

11

9.3

82

798

263

16.1

5.3

9.3

2.5

0.33

Portugal

12

9.9

81

1004

368

9.4

3.4

5.0

1.4

0.36

Iceland

15

9.0

82

45

19

13.7

5.8

8.8

3.2

0.42

Luxembourg

16

7.2

82

70

12

13.4

2.3

8.3

0.9

0.17

Netherlands

17

12.7

81

2679

1463

16.0

8.8

8.8

4.0

0.55

United Kingdom

18

9.3

81

9714

4150

15.5

6.6

8.2

3.0

0.43

Ireland

19

8.9

81

571

230

12.5

5.0

8.4

3.0

0.40

Switzerland

20

11.4

83

948

448

12.3

5.8

6.5

2.4

0.47

Belgium

21

10.9

80

1763

728

16.3

6.7

8.7

2.7

0.41

Colombia

22

6.8

78

1048

483

2.2

1.0

2.4

1.1

0.45

Sweden

23

9.6

82

1125

635

11.8

6.7

6.4

2.6

0.57

Cyprus

24

7.3

82

46

17

4.1

1.5

3.0

1.0

0.37

Germany

25

11.3

81

18,615

7540

22.7

9.2

10.6

3.3

0.41

Israel

28

7.4

82

1002

217

13.0

2.8

10.0

1.8

0.22

Canada

30

10.9

82

5579

1739

16.1

5.0

9.3

2.5

0.31

Finland

31

9.1

81

882

333

16.3

6.2

7.9

2.4

0.38

Australia

32

8.9

83

3501

960

15.3

4.2

9.5

2.1

0.27

Chile

33

7.3

80

1353

737

7.8

4.2

6.0

3.1

0.54

Denmark

34

11.0

80

754

352

13.5

6.3

7.2

2.9

0.47

Costa Rica

36

10.1

79

179

69

3.7

1.4

3.7

1.4

0.38

United States of America

37

17.0

79

58,222

14,900

18.4

4.7

12.0

2.6

0.26

Slovenia

38

9.4

80

400

171

19.6

8.4

11.1

3.9

0.43

Cuba

39

8.6

78

517

271

4.6

2.4

3.1

1.5

0.52

New Zealand

41

10.2

82

586

198

13.1

4.4

8.2

2.4

0.34

Bahrain

46

4.4

77

23

7

1.7

0.5

2.6

1.0

0.29

Thailand

47

4.5

75

1017

632

1.5

0.9

1.2

0.7

0.60

Czech Republic

48

7.5

78

3313

1095

31.4

10.4

16.7

4.8

0.33

Malaysia

49

4.0

74

611

255

2.1

0.9

2.4

1.0

0.43

Poland

50

6.8

77

5244

2721

13.7

7.1

8.1

3.7

0.52

Jamaica

53

5.6

74

31

20

1.1

0.7

1.1

0.7

0.64

Korea, Republic of

58

7.6

82

5651

1264

11.6

2.6

8.0

1.6

0.22

Philippines

60

4.4

69

1008

600

1.0

0.6

1.4

0.9

0.60

Slovakia

62

8.1

76

1063

388

19.4

7.1

12.5

4.2

0.37

Egypt

63

4.9

71

1740

1275

2.1

1.5

2.4

1.8

0.71

Uruguay

65

8.6

77

465

243

13.7

7.2

9.4

4.4

0.53

Trinidad and Tobago

67

5.5

71

32

18

2.4

1.3

2.3

1.1

0.54

Belarus

72

5.0

72

1575

637

16.5

6.7

11.1

4.1

0.41

Lithuania

73

6.7

74

773

309

23.5

9.4

13.2

4.9

0.40

Argentina

75

6.8

76

4068

1998

9.9

4.9

8.0

3.6

0.49

Estonia

77

5.9

77

284

142

21.2

10.6

11.7

4.6

0.50

Ukraine

79

7.5

71

5240

2542

11.7

5.7

7.5

3.4

0.49

Mauritius

84

4.8

74

53

25

4.0

1.9

4.2

2.2

0.48

Fiji

96

4.0

70

4

3

0.5

0.3

0.4

0.4

0.60

Bulgaria

102

7.4

75

881

470

11.9

6.4

6.9

3.3

0.54

Latvia

105

5.9

74

449

225

20.1

10.1

10.9

4.7

0.50

Ecuador

111

6.4

76

403

216

2.7

1.5

2.9

1.5

0.56

Brazil

125

9.5

75

6255

3291

3.2

1.7

3.0

1.5

0.53

Russian Federation

130

6.5

69

19,313

9025

13.5

6.3

8.9

3.8

0.47

South African Republic

175

8.9

60

506

420

1.0

0.8

1.2

1.1

0.80

  1. athe percentage in the ratio of the crude rate of mortalities and the crude rate of incidences