Table 1

Population which died of diseases indicative of palliative care need (N=2 331 600)*

Country abbreviated	Country	Deaths from diseases indicative of palliative care need†		Sex (%)	Cause of death in the population potentially in need of palliative care (%)				Age (%)
Country abbreviated	Country	N	(Per cent of all registered deaths)	Women	Cancer	Organ failure	Diseases of the nervous system	HIV/AIDS	1–69	70–79	≥80
Western Europe
IT	Italy	242 227	42	47	71	17	11	0	25	28	47
ES	Spain (Andalusia)	26 910	47	44	59	26	15	1	26	28	46
FR	France	235 529	44	47	68	17	15	0	28	24	48
BE	Belgium	44 229	44	48	62	23	14	0	26	27	47
NL	the Netherlands	65 964	49	51	64	22	15	0	29	26	45
ENG	England	197 516	42	51	67	19	14	0	39	34	28
WAL	Wales	13 214	41	50	67	19	13	0	40	34	26
Central/Eastern Europe
CZ	the Czech Republic	33 160	33	45	83	15	2	0	44	29	26
HU	Hungary	50 489	39	46	65	30	5	0	47	27	26
Oceania
NZ	New Zealand	12 982	44	50	66	20	13	0	30	27	43
North America
US	USA	1 100 215	45	50	52	38	9	1	34	25	42
CA	Canada	84 264	46	50	63	20	17	0	29	25	46
East Asia
KR	South Korea	93 131	38	41	75	16	9	0	43	31	26
Latin America
MX	Mexico	131 013	25	48	53	40	3	4	48	24	29

Missing data: Age: MX n=136 (0.1%); KR n=2 (0.0%); US n=30 (0.0%). Sex: MX n=5 (0.0%).
Percentages may not add up to 100 due to rounding.
*All deaths from 2008 except for those in the USA (2007) and Andalusia (2010).
†Identified as potentially amenable to palliative care by Rosenwax et al.29