What is a 27-year-old woman in Lithuania 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.
- 0.07% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.55%
- 0.06% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.76%
- 0.05% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.3%
- 0.05% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.73%
- 0.04% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.33%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.9%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 7.8%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 37%
Show the other 24 causesHide the other 24 causes45% together
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.17%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.5%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.99%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.28%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.1%
- 14Other causes2.8%0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.1%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.2%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.8%
- 0.02% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.02%
- 0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.05%
- 0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.0%
- 0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.36%
- 0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.61%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.61%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.35%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 2.9%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.9%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.05%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.07%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 15%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.02%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.58%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 1.7%
- <0.01% chance over 10 years · lifetime 0.06%
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For people like a 27-year-old woman in Lithuania, not a personal prediction. Based on official mortality data for Lithuania (2023), Eurostat. Personal risk also depends on health and habits.
Full page with comparisons: women aged 25–29 in Lithuania
How long people like this live: life expectancy.
Check-ups recommended for a 27-year-old woman in Lithuania
- Cervical screening (Pap test)every 3 years, ages 25–34 (smear)
- 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 Lithuanian national screening programmes and European guidelines. Your doctor may suggest more, or sooner, depending on your health. Educational, not medical advice.
We never store your answer with anything that identifies you — it stays on this device until you create an account, then carries over. Educational, not medical advice.