Nobody can predict when or how one person will die.
About you
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Describe a normal day
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Your habits and health
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What happens to people like you
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Each square is one week. Each row is one year, from birth at the top to 100 at the bottom.
What people like you most often die of
Over the rest of a life, from your age now.
A cause is high on this list for two reasons.
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What would add the most years
How this works, and its limits
References
Data
- World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory: life table for Malaysia, 2023 — chance of dying by age (nqx), life expectancy by age (ex)
- Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), cause-of-death calculator and its death records — kalkulator.dosm.gov.my/cod
- DOSM, Abridged Life Tables, Malaysia, 2024–2026 — dosm.gov.my; life expectancy by ethnicity as reported by The Vibes and SAYS (30 September and 1 October 2026)
- Ministry of Health Malaysia, National Health and Morbidity Survey 2019 — how common each habit is
Studies the risk numbers come from
- Smoking: Asia Cohort Consortium; Jha P et al., “21st-century hazards of smoking and benefits of cessation in the United States”, NEJM, 2013
- Body weight: Zheng W et al., “Association between body-mass index and risk of death in more than 1 million Asians”, NEJM, 2011; Global BMI Mortality Collaboration, The Lancet, 2016
- Blood pressure: Prospective Studies Collaboration, The Lancet, 2002
- Diabetes: Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration, “Diabetes mellitus, fasting glucose, and risk of cause-specific death”, NEJM, 2011
- Alcohol: GBD 2016 Alcohol Collaborators, The Lancet, 2018
- Exercise: Arem H et al., “Leisure time physical activity and mortality”, JAMA Internal Medicine, 2015
- Sleep: Cappuccio FP et al., “Sleep duration and all-cause mortality”, Sleep, 2010
- Fruit and vegetables: Aune D et al., International Journal of Epidemiology, 2017
- Road deaths by how people travel: Royal Malaysia Police road death figures