Academics have created a website which they claim will calculate the odds of you dying in the next 12 months.

Devised by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University DeathRiskRankings uses sets of public data to make the prediction based on your answers to a series of questions.

It takes into account your age, sex and location and compares this with statistics on 66 causes of death, including various illnesses, accidents and even murder rates, to work out your chance of survival.

According to the site there is a 1-in-1004 chance that by this time next year I won't be around to be writing odd news stories, with an accident is the most likely reason for my untimely demise.

The experts say the site can only base predictions on cause of death for your demographic group ... therefore if you are a drunk skydiver it may not be too accurate.