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Approximately 3.46 million people in the United States lost their lives in 2021. The most common causes of death in the U.S. are heart disease and cancer, however, COVID-19 accounted for around...
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Data are for the U.S.
•Number of deaths: 3,464,231
•Death rate: 1,043.8 deaths per 100,000 population
Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2021) via CDC WONDER
•Deaths: Final Data for 2019 [PDF – 3 MB]
•Deaths: Leading Causes for 2020 [PDF – 2 MB]
•Trends in Deaths from Health, United States
•United States Life Tables, 2020 [3 MB]
•U.S. State Life Tables, 2020 [919 KB]
•Death Rates by Marital Status for Leading Causes of Death: United States, 2010-2019 [PDF – 332 KB]
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May 4, 2023 · This report is an overview of provisional U.S. mortality data for 2022, including a comparison with 2021 death rates. In 2022, approximately 3,273,705 deaths † occurred in the United States. The estimated 2022 age-adjusted death rate decreased by 5.3%, from 879.7 per 100,000 persons in 2021 to 832.8.
Mar 9, 2022 · From 1980 to 2019, between eight and nine people per 1,000 have died each year in the United States. In 2019, the most recent year with official death estimates, 2,854,838 Americans died, and 3,747,540 were born. That means that 8.7 people died per 1,000 that year — up from a low of 7.9 deaths per 1,000 people in 2009.
The provisional number of deaths occurring in the US among US residents in 2020 was 3 358 814, an increase of 503 976 (17.7%) from 2 854 838 in 2019 ( Table ). Historic trends in mortality show seasonality in the number of deaths throughout the year, with the number of deaths higher in the winter and lower in the summer.
- Farida B Ahmad, Robert N Anderson
- 2021
Key findings. Data from the National Vital Statistics System. Life expectancy for the U.S. population in 2021 was 76.4 years, a decrease of 0.6 year from 2020. The age-adjusted death rate increased by 5.3% from 835.4 deaths per 100,000 standard population in 2020 to 879.7 in 2021.
Deaths spiked almost 19% (535,191) between 2019 and 2020, from 2,854,838 to 3,390,029. For the past century, deaths followed an overall trend of gradual, linear increase (Figure 1). Though deaths fluctuate from one year to the next, the annual changes observed were generally small in magnitude.
