Breast cancer statistics

Breast cancer is the 2nd most common cancer worldwide.

Latest breast cancer data

Breast cancer is the number one cancer in women. There were 2,296,840 new cases of breast cancer in 2022 among women. Breast cancer was not reported for men in the GLOBOCAN data, but individual countries may have data available. The tables below give information about the countries with the highest rates, incidence and mortality from breast cancer.

Breast cancer age-standardised rates

Age-standardised rates (ASR) are a summary measure of the rate of disease that a population would have if it had a standard age structure. Standardisation is necessary when comparing populations that differ with respect to age because age has a powerful influence on the risk of developing/dying from cancer.

It is important to note that some countries have a high ASR but a low total number of cases, while other have a low ASR but a high number of cases. This is because ASRs are reported per 100,000 people. So, for example, an ASR of 10 in a population of 100,000 = 10 cases of cancer, but an ASR of 1 in a population of 10 million = 100 cases.

The following table gives the top 5 countries by ASR for breast cancer incidence in women.

Country	New cases 2022	ASR
France (metropolitan)	65,659	105.4
Cyprus	1,020	104.8
Belgium	11,255	104.4
Netherlands	15,919	101.6
Australia	21,931	101.5

Breast cancer incidence (cases)

China, the US and India had the highest number of breast cancer cases in 2022.

The following table shows the 10 countries with the highest breast cancer incidence in women in 2022. We have also included the ASRs for each of these countries.

Rank	Country	New cases in women	ASR/100,000
	World	2,296,840	46.8
1	China	357,161	33.0
2	US	274,375	95.9
3	India	192,020	26.6
4	Brazil	94,728	63.1
5	Japan	91,916	74.4
6	Russia	78,839	57.7
7	Germany	74,016	77.0
8	Indonesia	66,271	41.8
9	France (metropolitan)	65,659	105.4
10	UK	58,756	94.0

Breast cancer deaths

India, China and the US had the highest number of deaths from breast cancer in 2022.

The following table shows the 10 countries with the highest number of breast cancer deaths among women in 2022. We have also included the ASRs for each of these countries.

Rank	Country	Number of women	ASR/100,000
	World	666,103	12.7
1	India	98,337	13.7
2	China	74,986	6.1
3	US	42,900	12.2
4	Indonesia	22,598	14.4
5	Brazil	22,189	13.9
6	Russia	22,115	13.6
7	Germany	20,601	15.8
8	Japan	17,638	9.7
9	Nigeria	16,332	26.8
10	Pakistan	15,552	18.6