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Gastric cancer incidence and mortality decreased substantially over the last decades in most countries worldwide, with differences in the trends and distribution of the main topographies across regions. To monitor recent mortality trends (1980–2011) and to compute short-term predictions (2015) of gastric cancer mortality in selected countries worldwide, we analysed mortality data provided by the World Health Organization. We also analysed incidence of cardia and non-cardia cancers using data from Cancer Incidence in Five Continents (2003–2007). The joinpoint regression over the most recent calendar periods gave estimated annual percent changes (EAPC) around −3% for the European Union (EU) and major European countries, as well as in Japan and Korea, and around −2% in North America and major Latin American countries. In the United States of America (USA), EU and other major countries …