Table 1

Trends in colorectal cancer incidence and mortality: three groups of temporal pattern

Group 1: incidence ↑ mortality ↑Philippines*, China*, Colombia†, Bulgaria†, Costa Rica†, Brazil†, Russia†, Belarus†, Estonia, Lithuania, Croatia, Spain, Latvia, Poland
Group 2:
incidence ↑ mortality ↓		Canada, Denmark, Switzerland, Ireland, Sweden, Singapore, Finland, Norway, Slovakia, UK, Netherlands, Italy, Malta, Slovenia
Group 3:
incidence ↓ mortality ↓		US (White), US (Black), Austria, New Zealand, Czech Republic, Iceland, France, Japan, Australia, Israel

  • *Medium human development index (HDI), refers to 0.534 < HDI ≤ 0.710.

  • †High HDI refers to 0.710 < HDI ≤ 0.796.

  • Very high HDI (all remaining countries) refers to HDI > 0.796.