What is a 47-year-old man in Slovakia 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.
- 1.0% chance over 10 years · lifetime 27%
- 0.71% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.5%
- 0.36% chance over 10 years · lifetime 7.1%
- 0.35% chance over 10 years · lifetime 6.4%
- 0.28% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.8%
- 0.27% chance over 10 years · lifetime 6.4%
- 0.26% chance over 10 years · lifetime 3.6%
- 0.25% chance over 10 years · lifetime 7.3%
Show the other 34 causesHide the other 34 causes44% together
- 0.23% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.5%
- 0.22% chance over 10 years · lifetime 3.6%
- 0.22% chance over 10 years · lifetime 4.5%
- 0.19% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.2%
- 0.16% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.56%
- 0.15% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.64%
- 0.13% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.4%
- 0.12% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.5%
- 0.12% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.44%
- 0.11% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.67%
- 0.09% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.56%
- 0.09% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.71%
- 0.08% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.7%
- 0.08% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.67%
- 0.07% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.16%
- 0.07% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.89%
- 0.07% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.88%
- 0.07% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.1%
- 0.06% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.5%
- 0.06% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.9%
- 0.05% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.16%
- 30Other causes0.79%0.05% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.87%
- 0.05% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.70%
- 0.05% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.2%
- 0.03% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.12%
- 0.03% chance over 10 years · lifetime 3.0%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.43%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.2%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.3%
- 0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.04%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.03%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.06%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.22%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime <0.01%
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For people like a 47-year-old man in Slovakia, not a personal prediction. Based on official mortality data for Slovakia (2023), Eurostat. Personal risk also depends on health and habits.
Full page with comparisons: men aged 45–49 in Slovakia
How long people like this live: life expectancy.
Check-ups recommended for a 47-year-old man in Slovakia
- Blood pressure checkevery year from 40 (every 3 years before)
- Cholesterol & heart-risk checkfrom 40 (men) / 50 (women), then as your doctor advises
- 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
- Prostate cancer in the family — PSA testfrom 45 (a father or brother diagnosed before 60), if you choose to be tested · ask your doctor
Based on Slovak 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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