Probability of Dying in any One Year from Various Causes
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Motor vehicle accident, living in US |
1 in 100 |
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Smoking 10 cigarettes a day |
1 in 200 |
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All natural causes, age 40 |
1 in 850 |
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Any kind of violence or poisoning |
1 in 3300 |
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Influenza |
1 in 5000 |
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Accident on the road (driving in Europe) |
1 in 8000 |
|
Leukemia |
1 in 12,500 |
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Asteroid or comet impact, living in US |
1 in 20,000 |
|
Earthquake, living in Iran |
1 in 23,500 |
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Playing field sports |
1 in 25,000 |
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Accident at home |
1 in 26,000 |
|
Accident at work |
1 in 43,500 |
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Floods, living in Bangladesh |
1 in 50,000 |
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Radiation, working in radiation industry |
1 in 57,000 |
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Tornado, living in US |
1 in 60,000 |
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Homicide living in Europe |
1 in 100,000 |
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Floods, living in northern China |
1 in 100,000 |
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Railway accident (travelling in Europe) |
1 in 500,000 |
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Earthquake, living in California |
1 in 2,000,000 |
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Food poisoining by botulism in US |
1 in 3,000,000 |
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Hit by lightning |
1 in 10,000,000 |
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Windstorm, living in northern Europe |
1 in 10,000,000 |
Sources: Coburn, A. and Spence, R., 1992, Earthquake Protection, Wiley, Chichester, England, as quoted in Kovach, R. L., 1995, Earth’s Fury, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
Morrison, D., 1992, The Spaceguard Surve, Report of the NASA International Near-Earth Object Detection Workshop, Pasadena, CA, NASA/JPL.