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Deaths:
Leading Causes for 2000. NVSR Vol. 50, No. 16. 86 pp. (PHS) 2002-1120. View/download PDF
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The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics has released final 2000 mortality statistics for the United
States in two new reports available today. “Deaths: Final Data for
2000” and “Deaths: Leading Causes for 2000” feature a comprehensive
breakdown of data for the year 2000. Some of the highlights from the
two reports include:
The
age-adjusted death rate in the United States reached an all-time low in 2000 of 872
deaths per 100,000 population.
Life
expectancy reached a record high of 76.9 years at birth.
Three
out of four deaths for young people aged 15-24 are injury-related, either
from unintentional injuries, suicide, or homicide.
Nearly
20,000 Americans died of drug-induced causes in 2000 and another 20,000
died of alcohol-induced causes.
5,430
Americans died from injuries suffered while at work. The
age-adjusted death rate for injuries at work decreased nearly 4 percent
between 1999 and 2000.
A
total of 28,663 people died from firearms in 2000. Among those aged
19 and under, the number of firearm deaths decreased by more than 10
percent compared with 1999.
A
total of 14,478 people died from HIV/AIDS in 2000. The age-adjusted
death rate from HIV declined nearly 2 percent between 1999 and 2000.
HIV
ranks 5th among the leading causes of death for all persons between the
ages of 35 and 44, but 2nd among Hispanic males of that age group and 1st
among African-American males of that age.
Cancer
is the leading cause of death in the Asian/Pacific Islander population,
and is second after heart disease for the white, black, and American
Indian population.
The
two reports are available at the CDC/NCHS
Web site. Preliminary mortality data for 2001 will be
available in fall 2002.
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