What is a 72-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.
- 3.1% chance over 10 years · lifetime 16%
- 1.6% chance over 10 years · lifetime 8.4%
- 1.5% chance over 10 years · lifetime 8.2%
- 1.4% chance over 10 years · lifetime 13%
- 1.4% chance over 10 years · lifetime 5.5%
- 1.1% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.5%
- 0.99% chance over 10 years · lifetime 6.4%
- 0.96% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.6%
Show the other 33 causesHide the other 33 causes46% together
- 0.93% chance over 10 years · lifetime 5.9%
- 0.91% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.7%
- 0.89% chance over 10 years · lifetime 4.9%
- 0.76% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.4%
- 0.75% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.2%
- 0.73% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.3%
- 15Other causes3.2%0.71% chance over 10 years · lifetime 3.6%
- 0.62% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.9%
- 0.51% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.3%
- 0.51% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.7%
- 0.37% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.2%
- 0.30% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.6%
- 0.27% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.5%
- 0.23% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.30%
- 0.22% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.59%
- 0.22% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.6%
- 0.19% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.36%
- 0.18% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.40%
- 0.17% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.51%
- 0.12% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.40%
- 0.12% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.30%
- 0.11% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.26%
- 0.10% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.41%
- 0.06% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.08%
- 0.06% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.23%
- 0.06% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.12%
- 0.05% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.08%
- 0.04% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.11%
- 0.03% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.06%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.06%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.03%
- 0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.01%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime <0.01%
For people like a 72-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 70–74 in Malta
How long people like this live: life expectancy.
Check-ups recommended for a 72-year-old woman in Malta
- Blood pressure checkevery year from 40 (every 3 years before)
- Bowel cancer screening (stool test)home stool test (FIT), ages 50–74 — free at the National Screening Centre (call 2122 7470 if you weren't invited)
- Flu vaccineevery autumn — from 60 or 65, depending on your country
- Cholesterol & heart-risk checkfrom 40 (men) / 50 (women), then as your doctor advises
- Pneumonia vaccine (pneumococcal)from 60 or 65, depending on your country — ask your doctor
- Blood sugar test (diabetes)every 3 years from 35
If you smoke or used to:
- Lung cancer screening (low-dose CT)if you smoke or smoked heavily, ages 50–74 — ask whether it's offered
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
- 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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