All Injuries
Data are for the U.S.
Morbidity
- Number of medically attended injury and poisoning episodes in the population: 39.5 million
- Episodes per 1,000 population: 126.3
Ambulatory care visits
- Number of visits (to physician offices, hospital outpatient and emergency departments) for injuries: 80.1 million (includes visits for adverse effects of drug, medicinal or biological substance)
Emergency departments visits
- Number of emergency department visits for injuries: 43.0 million (includes visits for adverse effects of medical treatment)
Mortality
All injury deaths
- Number of deaths: 199,756
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 62.6
All poisoning deaths
- Number of deaths: 51,966
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 15.4
Motor vehicle traffic deaths
- Number of deaths: 33,804
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.7
All firearm deaths
- Number of deaths: 33,736
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.6
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2014, table 18 [PDF - 4.4 MB]
Mortality: Drug poisoning deaths
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 14.8 (2014)
- Drug poisoning opioid analgesic deaths per 100,000 population: 5.9 (2014)
- Drug poisoning heroin deaths per 100,000 population: 3.3 (2014)
Source: Health, United States, 2015, table 27 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
More data
- Accidents/ Unintentional Injuries
- Assault/Homicide
- CDC WONDER-Multiple Cause-of-Death Data
- CDC WONDER - Underlying Cause of Death
- Deaths: Leading Causes for 2013 [PDF - 4.8 MB]
- Drug-poisoning Deaths in the United States, 1980-2008
- Drug-poisoning Deaths Involving Heroin: United States, 2000-2013
- Drug-poisoning Deaths Involving Opioid Analgesics: United States, 1999-2011
- Emergency Department Visits for Drug Poisoning: United States, 2008-2011
- Health, United States trend tables on injury
- Increases in Medically-Attended Nonfatal Injury Episodes Among Females in the United States
- Injury Episodes and Circumstances: National Health Interview Survey: 1997-2007 [PDF - 777 KB]
- Injury in the United States, 2007 Chart book [PDF - 6.6 MB]
- Injury-related Emergency Department Visits by Children and Adolescents: United States, 2009-2010
- National Hospital Care Survey Demonstration Projects: Traumatic Brain Injury [PDF - 475 KB]
- National Hospital Discharge Survey: 2010 tables, Average length of stay and days of care - Number and rate of discharges by first-listed diagnostic categories [PDF - 58 KB]
- NCHS Fact Sheet - NCHS Data on Drug Poisoning Deaths
- NCHS Fact Sheet - NCHS Data on Injuries
- Self-inflicted Injury/Suicide
- Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
Related Links
- Ambulatory Health Care Data
- Mortality data
- National Center for Health Statistics: Injury Data and Resources
- National Health Interview Survey
- National Hospital Discharge Survey
- NHIS: Injury and Poisoning Information
- Injury Definitions and Methods [PDF - 2.5 MB]
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- Page last reviewed: April 30, 2015
- Page last updated: October 7, 2016
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