🏛️ Becoming US president vs ☄️ Hit by a meteorite
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You're 6.25× more likely to be hit by a meteorite
than to become US president
Becoming US president
1 in 10,000,000
lifetime (illustrative)
Hit by a meteorite
1 in 1,600,000
lifetime (illustrative)
How we calculated this
Each figure is “1 in X.” The larger X is the rarer event. Dividing that number by the more common one gives the multiplier: you're 6.25× more likely to be hit by a meteorite. When the periods differ, this is a raw ratio of those figures, not a lifetime-normalized risk.
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You're 6.25× more likely to be hit by a meteorite (1 in 1,600,000, lifetime (illustrative)) than to become US president (1 in 10,000,000, lifetime (illustrative)). — How Likely Is That? https://www.howlikelyisthat.com/compare/odds-of-becoming-president-vs-odds-of-being-hit-by-a-meteorite
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