Table 3 European and North American pop stars’ crude mortality and mortality ratio relative to the general population by years of fame

	Years of fame	Sample size	Average age (years)	Survived	Died	Sample mortality	Lower	Upper	Reference mortality*	Mortality ratio
	Years of fame	Sample size	Average age (years)	Survived	Died	Sample mortality	95% CI	95% CI	Reference mortality*	Mortality ratio
European	0	503	24	502	1	0.20	0.01	1.10	0.00	NA
	5	503	29	496	7	1.39	0.56	2.85	0.46	3.05
	10	457	34	445	12	2.63	1.36	4.54	0.98	2.68
	15	375	39	360	15	4.00	2.26	6.51	1.63	2.46
	20	337	44	321	16	4.75	2.74	7.60	2.56	1.86
	25	253	48	233	20	7.91	4.90	11.94	3.97	1.99
	30	152	53	141	11	7.24	3.67	12.58	6.08	1.19
	35	102	58	90	12	11.76	6.23	19.65	8.85	1.33
North American	0	561	26	561	0	0.00	0.00	0.66	0.00	NA
	5	561	31	544	17	3.03	1.77	4.81	0.98	3.10
	10	495	36	466	29	5.86	3.94	8.32	2.08	2.82
	15	362	40	337	25	6.91	4.52	10.03	3.57	1.93
	20	291	46	261	30	10.31	7.06	14.39	5.49	1.88
	25	262	50	226	36	13.74	9.81	18.51	7.96	1.73
	30	196	55	157	39	19.90	14.55	26.18	11.30	1.76
	35	144	59	105	39	27.08	20.02	35.11	15.77	1.72

*Reference population mortality is calculated from published UK cohort life tables for European populations and from cohort life tables calculated from US decennial (period) life tables for North America (see Methods section for details).