Deaths from lung cancer in Spain 2005-2020, by gender
In 2020, the annual number of deaths from lung cancer in Spain amounted to around 21.8 thousand cases, slightly down from the 21.9 thousand deaths reported a year prior. Lung cancer deaths were more common among men than women throughout the analyzed period. In the last year featured, around 16.5 thousand men died from lung cancer, representing almost 76 percent of the total, while the number of women who died from this cancer amounted to 5.2 thousand in Spain.
