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Rate of Deaths from Cancer by Prefecture in Japan, 2015

In Japan, 370,346 persons died by cancer in 2015. The following data show the rate of deaths from cancer by prefecture (The number of deaths by cancer per million).

Figure: Rate of Deaths from Cancer by Prefecture in 2015

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The death rate is high in prefectures where the percentage of the elderly population is high.

Prefecture Deaths Male Female Per million Population
Total 370346 219508 150838 2914 127,083,000
Akita 4165 2404 1761 4016 1,037,000
Aomori 5035 2923 2112 3812 1,321,000
Kochi 2681 1559 1122 3633 738,000
Shimane 2529 1536 993 3628 697,000
Tottori 2046 1187 859 3564 574,000
Yamaguchi 4999 2849 2150 3550 1,408,000
Yamagata 4006 2333 1673 3542 1,131,000
Hokkaido 19098 11072 8026 3537 5,400,000
Wakayama 3405 2017 1388 3507 971,000
Nagasaki 4808 2728 2080 3469 1,386,000
Iwate 4404 2580 1824 3430 1,284,000
Niigata 7783 4634 3149 3365 2,313,000
Toyama 3566 2100 1466 3333 1,070,000
Ehime 4600 2722 1878 3297 1,395,000
Tokushima 2491 1485 1006 3260 764,000
Fukushima 6302 3736 2566 3257 1,935,000
Miyazaki 3621 2081 1540 3250 1,114,000
Saga 2698 1550 1148 3231 835,000
Kagoshima 5379 3073 2306 3225 1,668,000
Oita 3652 2105 1547 3119 1,171,000
Fukui 2447 1385 1062 3097 790,000
Kagawa 3024 1812 1212 3083 981,000
Kumamoto 5481 3145 2336 3055 1,794,000
Ibaraki 8823 5372 3451 3023 2,919,000
Fukuoka 15380 8697 6683 3021 5,091,000
Ishikawa 3483 1996 1487 3013 1,156,000
Yamanashi 2526 1470 1056 3004 841,000
Gunma 5915 3570 2345 2993 1,976,000
Gifu 6069 3630 2439 2974 2,041,000
Hyogo 16421 9692 6729 2964 5,541,000
Osaka 26056 15732 10324 2949 8,836,000
Nagano 6219 3557 2662 2949 2,109,000
Nara 4049 2430 1619 2943 1,376,000
Mie 5321 3235 2086 2916 1,825,000
Hiroshima 8245 4858 3387 2910 2,833,000
Okayama 5595 3336 2259 2908 1,924,000
Kyoto 7574 4384 3190 2902 2,610,000
Shizuoka 10570 6479 4091 2853 3,705,000
Miyagi 6578 3898 2680 2826 2,328,000
Tochigi 5506 3354 2152 2781 1,980,000
Chiba 16443 10104 6339 2653 6,197,000
Saitama 18823 11685 7138 2600 7,239,000
Kanagawa 23200 13952 9248 2551 9,096,000
Shiga 3608 2084 1524 2548 1,416,000
Aichi 18911 11328 7583 2537 7,455,000
Tokyo 33530 19688 13842 2504 13,390,000
Okinawa 3122 1830 1292 2197 1,421,000
           

Source is Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare 人口動態調査 人口動態統計 確定数 死亡 年次 2015年

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