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Revision as of 13:39, 25 January 2008

Relative risks of dying

These data are culled from a variety of official sources (National Institutes of Health in the US, and National Insurance Institute (Bituach Leumi) in Israel), and represent the years 2000-2005.

USA

Cause of death Risk per 1M
Heart disease 2409.4
Cancer 1940.5
Stroke 560.6
Accidents 368.9
Diabetes 252.6
Flu 222.3
Traffic 156.1
Suicide 108.8
Firearms 103.6
Murder 62.8
HIV 48.6
House fire 9.8
Other land/sea transport 6.3
Terrorism 2.0
Airplane crash 0.5
Dog attack 0.1
Shark attack 0.0

Israel

Cause of death Risk per 1M
Terrorism 31.0
Traffic 73.0
Murder 2.3

Comparison

Likelihood of violent death in Israel: 106.3, in USA: 220.9. That is to say, one is more than twice as likely to die a violent death in the USA as compared to Israel.

In either place, the most common cause of death is disease, not violence.