Top Ten: Odds of Dying
Updated July 17, 2021 |
Infoplease Staff
It always gets you in the end
The National Safety Council and National Center for Health Statistics regularly collect data about the most common causes of death in the U.S. Here are the lifetime odds of dying for selected causes in the United States. This data comes from the most recent published data, from 2019.
| Rank | Causes of death | Odds of dying |
|---|---|---|
| All causes | 1:1 | |
| 1. | Heart Disease | 1:6 |
| 2. | Cancer | 1:7 |
| 3. | Chronic lower respiratory disease | 1:27 |
| 4. | Suicide | 1:88 |
| 5. | Opioid Overdose | 1:92 |
| 6. | Accidental fall | 1:106 |
| 7. | Motor vehicle crash | 1:107 |
| 8. | Assault with a firearm | 1:289 |
| 9. | Pedestrian incident | 1:543 |
| 10. | Motorcycle incident | 1:899 |
Source: National Safety Council, 2021.
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