Global Breast Cancer Rates
March 4 , 2025
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- Australia and New Zealand have the highest rates of breast cancer incidence in the world.
- One in 20 women globally will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime and that one in 70 will die from the disease.
- The incidence rates were highest in Australia and New Zealand.
- It is followed by Northern America and Northern Europe and the lowest in south-central Asia.
- It found that the age-standardised incidence rate (ASIR) of the breast cancer in Australia and New Zealand in 2022 was 100.3 cases per 100,000 people.
- By comparison, in south-central Asia, the ASIR was 26.7 cases per 100,000 people.
- The age-standardised mortality rates (ASMR) for breast cancer were the highest in Melanesia at 26.8 deaths per 100,000 people.
- It is followed by Polynesia and western Africa and the lowest in eastern Asia at 6.5 deaths per 100,000 people.

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