Western Africa 9947 8.4 19.3 8189 6.9 16.0 7835 25818 Benin 255 7.8 19.3 210 6.4 16.0 203 677 Burkina Faso 305 5.1 13.8 261 4.4 11.8 229 741 Cape Verde 14 6.8 19.3 13 6.3 16.0 12 37 Cote d'Ivoire 847 9.9 19.7 706 8.3 16.6 654 2119 Gambia 14 2.1 4.7 13 1.9 4.0 11 39 Ghana 921 9.2 19.3 758 7.5 16.0 734 2451 Guinea 168 4.0 9.6 138 3.3 8.0 134 447 Guinea-Bissau 61 9.8 19.3 49 7.9 16.0 48 159 Liberia 99 6.1 15.7 84 5.2 13.2 79 265 Mali 204 3.4 7.2 174 2.9 6.1 155 504 Mauritania 117 8.4 19.3 96 6.8 16.0 93 310 Niger 176 3.0 10.8 149 2.5 9.2 133 429 Nigeria 6236 10.3 23.3 5098 8.4 19.2 4932 16237 Senegal 131 2.6 7.5 112 2.3 6.5 101 341 Sierra Leone 197 8.3 19.3 161 6.8 16.0 158 528 Togo 200 8.5 19.3 165 7.0 16.0 159 534

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Crude and Age-Standardised (World) rates, per 100,000 Countries for which no data are available are in italics. (See Data Sources and Methods) GLOBOCAN 2002, IARC