What you should know about this indicator
- Values come from the administrative records of national organized screening programs, not from population surveys. Screening done outside these programs, for example by general practitioners, is not counted.
- Coverage is the share of people in a program's target population who were screened within the recommended interval. Several countries use age ranges or screening intervals that differ from the standard ones described here, and Eurostat flags such values as following a different definition.
- Countries without an organized program for a given cancer, or that cannot compile program data, are not shown.
- Countries report with a lag, so the most recent year usually has values for only some of them, and recent values can be revised in later releases.
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“Data Page: Colon and rectum cancer screening coverage in Europe”, part of the following publication: Saloni Dattani, Veronika Samborska, Hannah Ritchie, and Max Roser (2024) - “Cancer”. Data adapted from Eurostat. Retrieved from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260909-232403/grapher/colon-and-rectum-cancer-screening-coverage-in-europe.html [online resource] (archived on September 9, 2026).How to cite this data
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Eurostat (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Colon and rectum cancer screening coverage in Europe – Eurostat” [dataset]. Eurostat, “Preventive cancer screenings – program data” [original data]. Retrieved September 12, 2026 from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260909-232403/grapher/colon-and-rectum-cancer-screening-coverage-in-europe.html (archived on September 9, 2026).Download
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/colon-and-rectum-cancer-screening-coverage-in-europe.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=falseMetadata URL (JSON format)
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/colon-and-rectum-cancer-screening-coverage-in-europe.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=falseExcel / Google Sheets
=IMPORTDATA("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/colon-and-rectum-cancer-screening-coverage-in-europe.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")Python with Pandas
import pandas as pd
import requests
# Fetch the data.
df = pd.read_csv("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/colon-and-rectum-cancer-screening-coverage-in-europe.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false", storage_options = {'User-Agent': 'Our World In Data data fetch/1.0'})
# Fetch the metadata
metadata = requests.get("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/colon-and-rectum-cancer-screening-coverage-in-europe.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false").json()R
library(jsonlite)
# Fetch the data
df <- read.csv("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/colon-and-rectum-cancer-screening-coverage-in-europe.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")
# Fetch the metadata
metadata <- fromJSON("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/colon-and-rectum-cancer-screening-coverage-in-europe.metadata.json?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false")Stata
import delimited "https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/colon-and-rectum-cancer-screening-coverage-in-europe.csv?v=1&csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=false", encoding("utf-8") clear