Cancer incidence in Europe 2022

In 2022, the highest cancer rate for men and women among European countries was in Denmark with 728.5 cancer cases per 100,000 population. Ireland and the Netherlands followed, with 641.6 and 641.4 people diagnosed with cancer per 100,000 population, respectively.

Lung cancer

Lung cancer is the deadliest type of cancer worldwide, and in Europe, Germany was the country with the highest number of lung cancer deaths in 2022, with 47.7 thousand deaths. However, when looking at the incidence rate of lung cancer, Hungary had the highest for both males and females, with 138.4 and 72.3 cases per 100,000 population, respectively.

Breast cancer

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women with an incidence rate of 83.3 cases per 100,000 population in Europe in 2022. Cyprus was the country with the highest incidence of breast cancer, followed by Belgium and France. The mortality rate due to breast cancer was 34.8 deaths per 100,000 population across Europe, and Cyprus was again the country with the highest figure.

Estimated cancer incidence in European countries in 2022* (per 100,000 population)

Characteristic	Rate of cancer per 100,000 population
Denmark	728.5
Ireland	641.6
Netherlands	641.4
Croatia	638.3
Hungary	626.1
Belgium	621.2
France	618.9
Slovenia	605.2
Sweden	586.9
Cyprus	582.4
Slovakia	582.1
Italy	576.4
Finland	570.9
Estonia	568
Czechia	565
Germany	556.7
Portugal	553.2
Latvia	553
Luxembourg	548.6
Poland	548.3
Malta	543.8
Lithuania	536.5
Greece	529.3
Spain	527.9
Romania	525.8

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June 2024

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2022

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EU-27

Supplementary notes

* Figures are age-standardized and do not include non-melanoma skin cancer.
The incidence rate depicted is the age-standardized rate (ASR - European 2013): a weighted mean of the age-specific rates where the weights are taken from the population distribution of a standard population. The ASR is expressed per 100,000.

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