Health & Medicine
Hospitals, medicines, lifespans, and the numbers behind human health.
The Asian Countries with the Highest Prostate Cancer Rates
New prostate cancer cases per 100,000 men, age-standardised, from IARC's GLOBOCAN 2022 estimates. Cyprus, Japan and Israel lead the 12 highest-rate countries in Asia, using the UN and IARC definition of the region.
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The Deadliest Pandemics and Epidemics in History
The 13 deadliest outbreaks on record, ranked by the midpoint of published death-toll estimates, from smallpox and the Black Death to the Spanish flu, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19. Early-history figures are scholarly estimates with wide ranges.
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The Countries with the Highest Life Expectancy
Life expectancy at birth, both sexes, from the UN World Population Prospects 2024 (2023 estimates). Monaco and San Marino lead the sovereign states, with Japan the highest large country; non-sovereign territories such as Hong Kong are excluded.
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