Health at a Glance 2023
OECD Indicators
Health at a Glance provides a comprehensive set of indicators on population health and health system performance across OECD members and key emerging economies. These cover health status, risk factors for health, access to and quality of healthcare, and health system resources. Analysis draws from the latest comparable official national statistics and other sources.
Alongside indicator-by-indicator analysis, an overview chapter summarises the comparative performance of countries and major trends. This edition also has a special focus on digital health, which measures the digital readiness of OECD countries’ health systems, and outlines what countries need to do accelerate the digital health transformation.
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Cancer mortality
Cancer was the second leading cause of death in OECD countries after circulatory diseases, accounting for 21% of all deaths in 2021. Leading causes of cancer-related mortality included lung cancer (20%), colorectal cancer (10.9%), breast cancer (14.7% among women) and prostate cancer (10.1% among men). These four represent almost 44% of all cancers diagnosed in OECD countries. Mortality rates from cancer have fallen in all OECD countries since 2000, although on average the decline has been more modest than for circulatory diseases.
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