What is a 77-year-old woman in Belarus 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.
- 18% chance over 10 years · lifetime 36%
- 14% chance over 10 years · lifetime 26%
- 5.6% chance over 10 years · lifetime 11%
- 3.7% chance over 10 years · lifetime 7.3%
- 2.3% chance over 10 years · lifetime 4.2%
- 1.0% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.6%
- 1.0% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.4%
- 0.92% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.6%
Show the other 34 causesHide the other 34 causes14% together
- 0.88% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.2%
- 0.83% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.1%
- 0.70% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.98%
- 0.56% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.70%
- 0.53% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.66%
- 0.51% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.68%
- 0.41% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.53%
- 0.35% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.60%
- 0.33% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.47%
- 0.26% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.52%
- 0.25% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.47%
- 20Other causes0.41%0.22% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.34%
- 0.20% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.28%
- 0.18% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.30%
- 0.16% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.19%
- 0.15% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.20%
- 0.13% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.20%
- 0.13% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.17%
- 0.12% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.19%
- 0.10% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.14%
- 0.10% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.15%
- 0.09% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.09%
- 0.09% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.14%
- 0.07% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.08%
- 0.07% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.09%
- 0.07% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.10%
- 0.04% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.06%
- 0.04% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.06%
- 0.04% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.05%
- 0.03% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.05%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.02%
- 0.02% 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%
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 133, the national psychological emergency line — free and confidential, any time (or findahelpline.com).
Causes estimated. Belarus publishes deaths by age and deaths by cause, but not the two together, so the split by cause is Odainn's estimate: Belstat's official 2018 totals, spread by the age and cause patterns of Lithuania and Latvia. Life expectancy and the odds of dying are official. How
For people like a 77-year-old woman in Belarus, not a personal prediction. Based on official mortality data for Belarus (2018), Belstat. Personal risk also depends on health and habits.
Full page with comparisons: women aged 75–79 in Belarus
How long people like this live: life expectancy.
Check-ups recommended for a 77-year-old woman in Belarus
- Blood pressure checkevery year from 40 — in the free dispensary check (диспансеризация) at your polyclinic
- Flu vaccineevery autumn — from 60 or 65, depending on your country
- Cholesterol & heart-risk checkevery year from 40 — in the free dispensary check (диспансеризация) at your polyclinic
- Pneumonia vaccine (pneumococcal)from 60 or 65, depending on your country — ask your doctor
- Blood sugar test (diabetes)every year from 40 (every 3 years from 18) — in the free dispensary check (диспансеризация) at your polyclinic
Based on the Belarus Ministry of Health dispensary check (2024) and European guidelines. Your doctor may suggest more, or sooner, depending on your health. Educational, not medical advice.
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