Table 1. Small areas.
 

Small areas
Country Population (thousands) Number Average population (thousands) Range in population (thousands) Annual number of new cancer cases Annual number of cancer deaths
Belarus 9,935 133 75 16 - 1,490 150 106
Denmark 5,123 276 19 0.1 - 487 73 52
Estonia 1,535 20 77 11 - 466 202 143
Finland 5,134 456 11 0.1 - 487 37 21
Germany 78,374 544 144 18 - 1,958 N/A 1 367

former GDR

 16,664 216 77 18 - 1,214 245 161

Saarland

 1,056 6 176 91 - 358 715 475

rest

 60,654 322 188 34 - 1,958 N/A 1 502
Iceland 244 8 30 10 - 91 95 51
Latvia 2,611 33 79 15 - 853 205 137
Lithuania 3,675 55 67 2 - 577 143 104
Norway 4,172 439 10 0.3 - 452 36 21
Poland 38,029 2271 17 2 - 1,634 N/A1 29

Warzawa, Cracow, Wroclaw

 2,968 3 622 622 - 1,634 3,195 2,176

rest

 35,061 2,268 15 2 - 844 N/A1 27
Russia2 13,905 355 39 8 - 4,996 107 87
Sweden 8,410 284 30 3 - 661 78 44
TOTAL 209,175 71453 29 0.1 - 4,996 51 53

1 Incidence data not available/presented.

2 Eight westernmost oblasts; small-areas formed artificially (cf. description in the text).

3 Number of small areas in incidence maps 4,555.

 

back