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Results—In 2019, the 10 leading causes of death were, in rank order: Diseases of heart; Malignant neoplasms; Accidents (unintentional injuries); Chronic lower respiratory diseases; Cerebrovascular diseases; Alzheimer disease; Diabetes mellitus; Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis; Influenza and pneumonia; and Intentional self-harm ...
- Melonie Heron
- 2021
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Data are for the U.S.
•Heart disease: 695,547
•Cancer: 605,213
•COVID-19: 416,893
•Accidents (unintentional injuries): 224,935
•Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 162,890
•Provisional Leading Causes of Death for 2023 – CDC Wonder
•Provisional Leading Causes of Death for 2022 – CDC Wonder
•Deaths: Final Data for 2019 [PDF – 3 MB]
•Deaths: Leading Causes for 2020 [PDF – 2 MB]
•Trends in Leading causes of death from Health, United States
•Death Rates by Marital Status for Leading Causes of Death: United States, 2010-2019 [PDF – 332 KB]
Dec 22, 2020 · The 10 leading causes of death in 2019 remained the same as in 2018, although kidney disease, the eighth leading cause and influenza and pneumonia, the ninth in 2019, switched ranks. Age-specific death rates decreased from 2018 to 2019 for age groups 45–54, 65–74, 75–84, and 85 and over.
Oct 6, 2023 · The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 3.46 million people died in the US in 2021. Overall, 10 causes accounted for 74.5% of deaths that year. For comparison, the top 10 causes in 1999 accounted for approximately 80% of all deaths.
• The 10 leading causes of death in 2019 remained the same as in 2018, although kidney disease, the eighth leading cause and influenza and pneumonia, the ninth in 2019, switched ranks. • Age-specific death rates decreased from 2018 to 2019 for age groups 45–54, 65–74, 75–84, and 85 and over.
- Kenneth D Kochanek, Jiaquan Xu, Elizabeth Arias
- 2020
Last Reviewed: October 24, 2019. Source: National Center for Health Statistics. This dashboard presents the age-adjusted death rates for the 10 leading causes of death in the United States, indicating mortality patterns from 1999 through 2015 and by state of residence for selected year and cause of death.
Provisional estimates indicate a 17.7% increase in the number of deaths in 2020 (the increase in the age-adjusted rate was 15.9%) compared with 2019, with increases in many leading causes of death. 1 The provisional leading cause-of-death rankings for 2020 indicate that COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the US behind heart ...
