How will you die? This interactive graph can predict what’s most likely to kill you
Sadly we all have one thing in common - death
NOW you can check what you're most likely to die of using a new interactive calculator developed by science boffins.
Nathan Yau, a statistician from the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), created a colourful chart that lets you calculate how a person is likely to die based on age, gender and ethnicity - but be warned, there's not many options under this sub-section.
There are 15 categories of disease and external causes of death including infection, cancer, blood diseases, mental conditions, circulatory problems, congenital problems and digestive conditions.
In his blog , Nathan explains: “Enter your sex, race, and age. Each dot represents one of your simulated lives, and as each year passes, more of your simulated selves pass away.
"Colour corresponds to cause of death, and the bars on the right keep track of the cumulative percentages. By the end, you're left with the chances that you will die of each cause.”
Nathan points out: "Mortality rate is much lower in the earlier years of life than in the older years.
"But, if you do die at a younger age, it’s much more likely due to something external rather than a disease."
According to data from World Bank, the average age of death in Britain is 81.5 years old and after this age, there is more than a 40 per cent chance you'll die of a circulatory condition.
He added: "This surprised me, because it seems like cancer would be the leading cause just going off general news.
"This is certainly true up to a certain age, but get past that and your heart can only keep going for so long."
Nathan created the tool using data from the Underlying Cause of Death database from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which provides data for the number of people who died in the US between 1999 and 2014.
The records are based on death certificates, which require an entry for a single cause of death.
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