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Cause-of-death statistics for 2020 presented in this report are classified according to the 10th revision of ICD (ICD–10) (6). Discussions of the cause-of-death classification and coding rule changes in data year 2020 are provided in the Technical Notes at the end of this report. Procedures for ranking causes of death
was added to the list of rankable causes in data year 2006 because of a substantial increase in the number of deaths due to this cause from 1999 through 2006 (9,10). COVID-19 was added in data year 2020 due to its emergence as a leading cause of death. Selection of the 52 rankable causes was guided by some basic principles.
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Many of the 15 leading causes of death in 2020 changed from 2019. COVID-19, a new cause of death in 2020, became the third leading cause in 2020. The infant mortality rate decreased 2.9% to a historic low of 5.42 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2020.
Life expectancy for the U.S. population in 2020 was 77.0 years, a decrease of 1.8 years from 2019. The age-adjusted death rate increased by 16.8% from 715.2 deaths per 100,000 standard population in 2019 to 835.4 in 2020. Age-specific death rates increased from 2019 to 2020 for each age group 15 years and over.
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Heart disease deaths increased by 4.8%, the largest increase in heart disease deaths since 2012. Increases in deaths also occurred for unintentional injury (11.1%), Alzheimer disease (9.8%), and diabetes (15.4%). Influenza and pneumonia deaths in 2020 increased by 7.5%, although the number of deaths was lower in 2020 than in 2017 and 2018.
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Jan 31, 2022 · 1. Heart disease . Deaths in 2020: 696,962 Percentage of total deaths: 20.6% The leading cause of death in 2020 was heart disease, which includes several conditions that affect the heart and blood ...
INFANT MORTALITY/DEATH – is the death of an infant under one year of age. INFANT MORTALITY RATE (IMR) - Measures the risk of dying during the 1st year of life. It is a good index of the general health condition of a community since it reflects the changes in the environmental and medical conditions of a community.
