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Estimated cancer incidence in European countries in 2024 (per 100,000 population)

Characteristic	Rate of cancer per 100,000 population
Denmark	668
Croatia	603.7
Netherlands	602.3
Belgium	595.7
Hungary	592
Ireland	588.7
Slovenia	582.2
France	581.3
Estonia	578.2
Portugal	565.5
Slovakia	563.3
Italy	555.3
Sweden	554.4
Germany	549.4
EU-27	546.6
Czechia	540.8
Latvia	537.1
Finland	536.6
Lithuania	535.5
Malta	512.8
Greece	510.4
Poland	508.3
Spain	502.1
Romania	489.4
Austria	488
Luxembourg	472.7
Bulgaria	404.7
Cyprus	395.7

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February 2026

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2024

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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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In 2024, the highest cancer rate among European countries was in Denmark, with 668 cancer cases per 100,000 population. Croatia and the Netherlands followed, with 603.7 and 602.3 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.