What is a 27-year-old woman in Malta 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 3.4%
- 0.04% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.81%
- 0.03% chance over 10 years · lifetime 7.9%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 15%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.06%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.8%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.13%
- 0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.3%
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- 0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 7.6%
- 0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.4%
- 0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.57%
- 0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.05%
- 0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.05%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.5%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.68%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.43%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.5%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.9%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 5.5%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.42%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.06%
Some of these risks are about mental health and substances. They are among the most preventable — if you or someone you love is struggling, call the national mental health helpline on 1579 — free and confidential, any time (or findahelpline.com).
For people like a 27-year-old woman in Malta, not a personal prediction. Based on official mortality data for Malta (2018, 2019 and 2023), Eurostat. Personal risk also depends on health and habits.
Full page with comparisons: women aged 25–29 in Malta
How long people like this live: life expectancy.
Check-ups recommended for a 27-year-old woman in Malta
- Cervical screening (HPV test)every 3 years from 25, every 5 years from 50 — free for women born from 1980; if you were born earlier, ask your doctor
- 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 Malta's National Screening Centre programmes and European guidelines. Your doctor may suggest more, or sooner, depending on your health. Educational, not medical advice.
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