Number of deaths caused by cancer in Sweden 2009-2022, by gender
The number of deaths caused by cancer among men in Sweden was higher than the number of cancer deaths among women in all years during the period from 2009 to 2022. For both men and women, the number of cancer deaths were generally decreasing over the period. In 2022, the death rate from cancer was around 229 deaths per hundred thousand inhabitants among men and around 218 among women.