Death Data

The following tables provide the most current statistics on deaths in Oregon by county of residence.

• Final mortality data are presented yearly in Volume 2 of our annual reports.
• Death by Age of Decedent, County and ZIP code (3 year aggregates)
• Age-Adjusted Death Rates by County for Selected Causes (2000-2004)
• Year-to-date data.

Please read about Oregon Preliminary Data before using year-to-date (YTD) and preliminary statistics.

Related Publications

• Death with Dignity Annual Reports

• Youth Suicide: Results from the 1999 YRBS
  Health Trends Newsletter August 2000(352K)

• A Potential for Violent Injury - Guns and Knives in the Schools
  Health Trends Newsletter June 2000 (1999 YRBS Data) (1.2 Mb)

• Weapon-Carrying High School Students - Describes the weapon-carrying behavior of Oregon adolescents.
  CD Summary November 1999 (1997 YRBS Data)

• Weapons and Oregon Teens - What is the Risk?
  More Oregon high school-aged students died from gunshot injuries than from all natural causes combined.
  Report Published October, 1999 (1997 YRBS Data) (1.4 Mb)

• Weapons, Schools, and Kids - What is the Risk?
  Health Trends Newsletter October 1999 (1997 YRBS Data)

• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Risk to Oregonians? Also: Cremation, and From Cradle to Grave
  Health Trends Newsletter August 1999

• Oral Cancer: Deadly to Ignore Also Parkinson's Disease, and Alzheimer's Disease
  Health Trends Newsletter December 1998

• Causes of Mortality
  CDSummary Vol.47, No. 21, October 1998

• Unintentional Drowning in Oregon
  CDSummary Vol.47, No. 15, July 1998

• Summer Fun, Summer Death Drowning and Animal-Related Fatalities
  Health Trends Newsletter July 1998 (3.7 Mb)

• Suicidal Behavior Results from the 1997 Youth Risk Behavior Survey
  Health Trends Newsletter May 1998

• Suicide and Suicidal Thoughts by Oregonians
  Download report published Nov. 1997. (1994 data) or
  See press release

• Suicidal Thoughts, Suicidal Deaths
  CDSummary Vol.46, No. 24, November 1997

• Weapons and Oregon Teens: What is the Risk? - Including gunshot deaths
  Press Release November 24, 1997 (based on 1994 data)

• Suicidal Behavior, A Survey of Oregon High School Students - 1997 YRBS Data
  Report Published September 1997

• Premature Death Among African-Americans and American Indians
  CDSummary Vol.46, No. 6, March 1997

• Minority Health: Mortality Profiles of Oregon's Residents
  Health Newsletter July 1996 (476K)

• HIV/AIDS - Knowledge and Risky Behavior Among Oregon Youth 1995
  Health Trends Newsletter April 1996 (1995 YRBS Data)

• Minority Health 1994 Infants At Risk
  Health Trends Newsletter February 1996

• Fatal Behavior Why Oregonians Die Prematurely
  Health Trends Series No. 44, December 1995

• Mortality Patterns by Race and Ethnicity, 1989-1995