What is a 42-year-old woman in Moldova 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.
- 0.66% chance over 10 years · lifetime 3.8%
- 0.39% chance over 10 years · lifetime 42%
- 0.24% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.6%
- 0.23% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.85%
- 0.16% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.3%
- 0.16% chance over 10 years · lifetime 18%
- 0.15% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.1%
- 0.13% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.3%
Show the other 30 causesHide the other 30 causes37% together
- 0.10% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.3%
- 0.10% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.3%
- 0.10% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.3%
- 0.08% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.72%
- 0.07% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.39%
- 0.06% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.0%
- 0.06% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.37%
- 0.06% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.56%
- 0.06% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.48%
- 0.05% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.31%
- 0.05% chance over 10 years · lifetime 9.9%
- 0.05% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.43%
- 0.05% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.2%
- 0.04% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.16%
- 0.04% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.67%
- 0.04% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.84%
- 0.03% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.82%
- 26Other causes0.84%0.03% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.30%
- 0.03% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.19%
- 0.03% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.78%
- 0.03% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.23%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.19%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.10%
- 0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.22%
- 0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.79%
- 0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.10%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.07%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.03%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.02%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime <0.01%
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For people like a 42-year-old woman in Moldova, not a personal prediction. Based on official mortality data for Moldova (2023), Eurostat. Personal risk also depends on health and habits.
Full page with comparisons: women aged 40–44 in Moldova
How long people like this live: life expectancy.
Check-ups recommended for a 42-year-old woman in Moldova
- Blood pressure checkevery year from 40 (every 3 years before)
- Cervical screening (HPV test)Pap test every 3 years, ages 25–61 — free through your family doctor, insured or not
- Blood sugar test (diabetes)every 3 years from 35
If a parent, brother, sister or child had:
- Bowel cancer in the family — earlier bowel checkoften a colonoscopy every 5 years from 40 (or 10 years before your relative's age at diagnosis, if earlier) · ask your doctor
- 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 Moldova's national cervical screening and European guidelines. Your doctor may suggest more, or sooner, depending on your health. Educational, not medical advice.
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