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Interpretation of Death Rates Data

Death Rate Report for Georgia by County

All Cancer Sites, 2018-2022

All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages <50

Sorted by CI*Rank

Explanation of Column Headers

Objective - The objective of 122.7 is from the Healthy People 2020 project done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Death Rate (95% Confidence Interval) - The death rate is based upon 100,000 people and is for 5 year(s). Rates are age-adjusted by 5-year age groups to the 2000 U.S. standard million population (the Healthy People 2020 goals are based on rates adjusted using different methods but the differences should be minimal).

Recent Trends - This is an interpretation of the AAPC:

AAPC (95% Confidence Interval) - The Average Annual Percent Change is the change in rate over time. These AAPCs are based upon APCs that were calculated by Joinpoint Regression Program


Other Notes


Line by Line Interpretation of the Report


Georgia


United States


Forsyth County


Bryan County


Cobb County


Houston County


Gwinnett County


Douglas County


Fulton County


DeKalb County


Coffee County


Bulloch County


Cherokee County


Coweta County


Jackson County


Catoosa County


Columbia County


Paulding County


Bartow County


Habersham County


Fayette County


Harris County


Lowndes County


Whitfield County


Clayton County


Troup County


Ware County


Newton County


Hall County


Clarke County


Carroll County


Chatham County


Liberty County


Gordon County


Colquitt County


Muscogee County


Effingham County


Bibb County


Baldwin County


Camden County


Walker County


Rockdale County


Walton County


Henry County


Glynn County


Barrow County


Laurens County


Polk County


Murray County


Thomas County


Lumpkin County


Gilmer County


Tift County


Wayne County


Spalding County


Sumter County


Floyd County


Dougherty County


Richmond County


Burke County


Franklin County


Peach County


Toombs County


Crisp County


Pierce County


Brantley County


Appling County Atkinson County Bacon County Baker County Banks County Ben Hill County Berrien County Bleckley County Brooks County Butts County Calhoun County Candler County Charlton County Chattahoochee County Chattooga County Clay County Clinch County Cook County Crawford County Dade County Dawson County Decatur County Dodge County Dooly County Early County Echols County Elbert County Emanuel County Evans County Fannin County Glascock County Grady County Greene County Hancock County Haralson County Hart County Heard County Irwin County Jasper County Jeff Davis County Jefferson County Jenkins County Johnson County Jones County Lamar County Lanier County Lee County Lincoln County Long County Macon County Madison County Marion County McDuffie County McIntosh County Meriwether County Miller County Mitchell County Monroe County Montgomery County Morgan County Oconee County Oglethorpe County Pickens County Pike County Pulaski County Putnam County Quitman County Rabun County Randolph County Schley County Screven County Seminole County Stephens County Stewart County Talbot County Taliaferro County Tattnall County Taylor County Telfair County Terrell County Towns County Treutlen County Turner County Twiggs County Union County Upson County Warren County Washington County Webster County Wheeler County White County Wilcox County Wilkes County Wilkinson County Worth County

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 07/02/2025 7:08 am.

State Cancer Registries may provide more current or more local data.
Trend
Rising when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change is above 0.
Stable when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change includes 0.
Falling when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change is below 0.

† Death data provided by the National Vital Statistics System public use data file. Death rates calculated by the National Cancer Institute using SEER*Stat. Death rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population (19 age groups: <1, 1-4, 5-9, ... , 80-84, 85+). The Healthy People 2030 goals are based on rates adjusted using different methods but the differences should be minimal. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI.
The US Population Data File is used with mortality data.
‡ The Average Annual Percent Change (AAPC) is based on the APCs calculated by Joinpoint. Due to data availability issues, the time period used in the calculation of the joinpoint regression model may differ for selected counties.

⋔ Results presented with the CI*Rank statistics help show the usefulness of ranks. For example, ranks for relatively rare diseases or less populated areas may be essentially meaningless because of their large variability, but ranks for more common diseases in densely populated regions can be very useful. More information about methodology can be found on the CI*Rank website.

Healthy People 2030 Objectives provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Φ Rural-Urban Continuum Codes provided by the USDA.

* Data has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate estimates. Counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 records were reported in a specific area-sex-race category. If an average count of 3 is shown, the total number of cases for the time period is 16 or more which exceeds suppression threshold (but is rounded to 3).

Please note that the data comes from different sources. Due to different years of data availability, most of the trends are AAPCs based on APCs but some are APCs calculated in SEER*Stat. Please refer to the source for each graph for additional information.

Data for United States does not include Puerto Rico.