Bladder cancer death rate by country

Reported deaths from bladder cancer in both sexes in those aged all ages per 100,000 people.

Countries reporting
105
Highest
4.85 deaths per 100,000 people
Hungary
Lowest
0 deaths per 100,000 people
Saint Lucia
Median
1.7 deaths per 100,000 people
Years covered
45
1979–2023
Data points
3,427

What the numbers show

Bladder cancer death rate is currently reported for 105 countries. The highest value is 4.85 deaths per 100,000 people in Hungary; the lowest is 0 deaths per 100,000 people in Saint Lucia.

The median across all reporting countries is 1.7 deaths per 100,000 people, and the mean is 1.93 deaths per 100,000 people.

Over the past decade 30 countries rose and 72 fell. The largest increase was in French Guiana (up 289.8%), and the largest decrease in Saint Lucia (down 100.0%).

Bladder cancer death rate: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Hungary 4.85 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 up 9.0% flat
2 Poland 4.71 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 up 0.7% rising
3 Croatia 4.49 deaths per 100,000 people 2021 up 12.1% rising
4 Serbia 4.22 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 up 0.9% rising
5 Latvia 3.89 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 16.5% rising
6 Romania 3.75 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 up 5.3% rising
7 Greece 3.72 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 10.1% falling
9 Slovakia 3.69 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 7.0% flat
10 Slovenia 3.65 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 3.5% rising
11 French Guiana 3.62 deaths per 100,000 people 2016 up 289.8% volatile
12 Bulgaria 3.62 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 10.5% rising
13 Cyprus 3.58 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 up 32.5% rising
14 North Macedonia 3.54 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 5.2% rising
15 Czechia 3.36 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 5.8% falling
16 Lithuania 3.35 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 up 6.6% falling
17 Estonia 3.28 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 up 8.4% flat
18 Uruguay 3.26 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 6.0% falling
19 Armenia 3.22 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 29.6% falling
20 Montenegro 3.2 deaths per 100,000 people 2019 up 117.6% rising
21 Spain 3.16 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 30.5% falling
22 United Kingdom 3.12 deaths per 100,000 people 2021 down 12.6% falling
23 Cuba 3.08 deaths per 100,000 people 2021 up 1.2% falling
24 Moldova 3.04 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 up 21.8% rising
25 Denmark 3.03 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 29.0% falling
26 Italy 2.85 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 15.3% falling
27 Norway 2.81 deaths per 100,000 people 2016 down 17.5% falling
28 Netherlands 2.78 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 14.9% falling
29 Switzerland 2.73 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 3.9% falling
30 Bahrain 2.69 deaths per 100,000 people 2014 down 23.3% falling
32 France 2.55 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 24.1% falling
33 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2.53 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 up 255.8% volatile
34 New Zealand 2.45 deaths per 100,000 people 2018 down 10.2% falling
35 Ukraine 2.38 deaths per 100,000 people 2019 down 17.1% falling
36 Turkey 2.37 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 14.4% flat
37 Belgium 2.34 deaths per 100,000 people 2021 down 35.3% falling
38 Russia 2.33 deaths per 100,000 people 2019 down 25.5% falling
39 United States 2.33 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 12.2% falling
40 Portugal 2.32 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 36.8% flat
41 Israel 2.28 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 26.6% falling
42 Germany 2.26 deaths per 100,000 people 2020 down 13.5% falling
43 Canada 2.25 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 20.6% falling
45 Austria 2.17 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 4.0% falling
46 Iran 2.15 deaths per 100,000 people 2017 rising
47 Sweden 2.09 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 27.0% falling
48 Belarus 2.05 deaths per 100,000 people 2018 down 9.2% falling
49 Brazil 1.98 deaths per 100,000 people 2021 up 5.4% rising
50 Chile 1.95 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 up 6.8% flat
51 Argentina 1.95 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 20.4% falling
52 Georgia 1.88 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 6.4% rising
53 Australia 1.85 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 16.7% falling
54 Trinidad and Tobago 1.84 deaths per 100,000 people 2020 down 11.1% falling
55 Finland 1.82 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 7.3% falling
56 Reunion 1.7 deaths per 100,000 people 2016 down 24.2% falling
57 Egypt 1.69 deaths per 100,000 people 2019 down 46.7% falling
58 Antigua and Barbuda 1.66 deaths per 100,000 people 2021 down 53.1% volatile
59 Japan 1.66 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 2.3% flat
60 Venezuela 1.63 deaths per 100,000 people 2016 up 22.6% falling
61 Jamaica 1.61 deaths per 100,000 people 2014 up 2.2% falling
62 Puerto Rico 1.61 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 16.3% falling
63 South Africa 1.61 deaths per 100,000 people 2020 down 13.6% falling
64 Bahamas 1.59 deaths per 100,000 people 2016 up 106.8% volatile
65 Iceland 1.4 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 66.2% falling
66 Jordan 1.38 deaths per 100,000 people 2018 down 39.0% falling
67 South Korea 1.35 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 22.5% rising
69 Grenada 1.33 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 14.6% volatile
70 Kuwait 1.29 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 9.1% volatile
71 Kyrgyzstan 1.21 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 15.8% falling
72 Singapore 1.2 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 up 0.0% falling
73 Brunei 1.2 deaths per 100,000 people 2019 down 21.9% volatile
75 Costa Rica 1.15 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 up 16.8% falling
76 Hong Kong 1.12 deaths per 100,000 people 2017 down 23.8% falling
77 Mauritius 1.11 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 40.1% falling
78 Suriname 1.05 deaths per 100,000 people 2014 up 72.3% volatile
79 Syria 1.04 deaths per 100,000 people 2010 up 72.9% rising
80 Qatar 0.9825 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 62.2% volatile
81 Fiji 0.9615 deaths per 100,000 people 2012 up 84.4% volatile
82 Kazakhstan 0.9583 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 43.0% volatile
83 Colombia 0.9488 deaths per 100,000 people 2021 down 4.4% falling
84 Peru 0.9416 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 up 4.2% falling
85 Azerbaijan 0.9301 deaths per 100,000 people 2007 down 53.1% falling
86 Turkmenistan 0.918 deaths per 100,000 people 2015 down 5.4% volatile
87 Mongolia 0.9153 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 28.2% falling
88 Mexico 0.908 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 10.3% falling
89 Thailand 0.9073 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 up 10.1% volatile
90 Paraguay 0.9042 deaths per 100,000 people 2021 up 6.3% rising
91 Seychelles 0.8604 deaths per 100,000 people 2021 volatile
92 Oman 0.8569 deaths per 100,000 people 2021 up 27.9% rising
94 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.815 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 74.2% rising
95 Belize 0.7563 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 9.6% volatile
96 Ecuador 0.7513 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 11.4% falling
97 Sri Lanka 0.7263 deaths per 100,000 people 2019 down 5.6% volatile
98 Malaysia 0.6839 deaths per 100,000 people 2020 up 5.5% rising
99 Panama 0.6766 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 34.5% falling
100 Uzbekistan 0.6695 deaths per 100,000 people 2023 down 11.9% falling
101 Barbados 0.6613 deaths per 100,000 people 2013 down 41.4% volatile
102 Guyana 0.6127 deaths per 100,000 people 2020 down 64.7% volatile
103 Maldives 0.612 deaths per 100,000 people 2021 down 79.3% volatile
104 Philippines 0.5481 deaths per 100,000 people 2019 down 18.7% flat
105 El Salvador 0.5396 deaths per 100,000 people 2018 up 8.7% rising
106 Guatemala 0.4461 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 27.3% flat
107 Nicaragua 0.4246 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 up 10.2% falling
108 Dominican Republic 0.3953 deaths per 100,000 people 2018 down 13.4% falling
109 Tajikistan 0.1773 deaths per 100,000 people 2022 down 72.6% volatile
110 Albania 0 deaths per 100,000 people 2010 volatile
110 Saint Lucia 0 deaths per 100,000 people 2020 down 100.0% volatile

About this data

Indicator
Bladder cancer death rate
Unit
deaths per 100,000 people
Source
WHO Mortality Database (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
111 places, 3,427 data points, 1979–2023
Last refreshed

Reported deaths from bladder cancer in both sexes in those aged all ages per 100,000 people.