What is a 22-year-old woman in Czechia most likely to die from?
Move the controls. The answer comes from official mortality statistics for 37 countries in Europe and North America — and it surprises almost everyone.
Official mortality statistics are published by sex at birth, which is why we ask.
Share of all deaths in the next 10 years.
- 0.05% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.32%
- 0.03% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.20%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 12%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.31%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 3.5%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.76%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.8%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 3.8%
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- 0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 9.5%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.7%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 7.1%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.3%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.04%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.31%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.32%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.99%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.15%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.54%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.5%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime <0.01%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.30%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.05%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.07%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.9%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 4.9%
- 26Other causes1.1%<0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.2%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.5%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.0%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.5%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.94%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.3%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.48%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 18%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.59%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.6%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.36%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.4%
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For people like a 22-year-old woman in Czechia, not a personal prediction. Based on official mortality data for Czechia (2023), Eurostat. Personal risk also depends on health and habits.
Full page with comparisons: women aged 20–24 in Czechia
How long people like this live: life expectancy.
Check-ups recommended for a 22-year-old woman in Czechia
- Cervical screening (smear and HPV test)a smear every year from 15 at your gynaecologist, with an HPV test at 35, 45 and 55
- Blood pressure checkevery 3 years from 18 (every year from 40)
If a parent, brother, sister or child had:
- Early heart attack or stroke in the family — cholesterol & heart-risk checknow, whatever your age — then as advised · ask your doctor
- Breast or ovarian cancer in the family — risk check and genetic counsellingask your doctor once — you may be offered earlier mammograms (often yearly from 40) or a gene test
Based on Czech national screening programmes and European guidelines. Your doctor may suggest more, or sooner, depending on your health. Educational, not medical advice.
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