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     • Motor vehicle crashes were the leading cause of death for children and adolescents, representing 20% of all deaths; firearm-related injuries were the second leading cause of death, responsible for 15% of deaths.
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   What is the leading cause of death for children and teens?

   • In 2020, firearms surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for children and teens. Deaths due to firearm-related injuries — including death by homicide, suicide, or accident — were around 20% of all child and teen deaths in 2020 and 2021, the largest proportion in at least four decades.

   Children are dying at the highest rate in 13 years - USAFacts

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   What causes a child to die in the United States?

   • Next were birth disorders, such as preterm birth, neonatal asphyxia (suffocation), and trauma, which together caused an estimated 1.88 million deaths. Several other causes such as heart abnormalities and malnutrition were also responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths.

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   Are unintentional injuries the leading cause of death for children?

   • Although injury death rates have declined in the past 2 decades for children ages 1–14, unintentional injuries remain the leading cause of death for children ages 1–4 and ages 5–14.

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   What is the mortality rate for children ages 1 & 4?

   • From 2011 to 2021, the all-cause death rate among children ages 1–4 declined from 26.3 deaths per 100,000 to 25.0 deaths per 100,000. The injury-related death rate among children ages 1–4 decreased from 11.4 deaths per 100,000 in 2011 to 9.5 deaths per 100,000 in 2019 but did not change significantly through 2021 at 11.2 deaths per 100,000.

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   Apr 20, 2022 · Leading Causes of Death among Children and Adolescents in the United States, 1999 through 2020. In addition, drug overdose and poisoning increased by 83.6% from 2019 to 2020 among...

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   Jun 13, 2023 · For white, Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native children, car accidents remain the leading cause of death. Cancer has been the leading cause of death in Asian or Pacific Islander children since 2010.

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   •Percent of children ages 0–4 years who are in fair or poor health: 1.5% (2022)

   •Percent of children ages 5–11 years who are in fair or poor health: 2.2% (2022)

   •Percent of children ages 5–11 years who missed 11 or more days of school in the past 12 months because of illness, injury, or disability: 8.0% (2022)

   Source: Interactive Summary Health Statistics for Children: National Health Interview Survey, 2019-2022

   •Percent of children ages 2–5 years with obesity: 12.7% (2017-March 2020)

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   •Long COVID in Children: United States, 2022

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   In 2021, unintentional injuries (accidents) were the leading cause of death for children ages 1–4 (8.5 deaths per 100,000) and ages 5–14 (4.2 deaths per 100,000). The second leading cause of death was birth defects among children ages 1–4 (2.7 deaths per 100,000) and cancer among children ages 5–14 (1.9 deaths per 100,000).

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   Apr 20, 2022 · the leading cause of death among children and adolescents, defined as persons 1 to 19 years of age.4 Since 2016, that gap has narrowed, and in 2020, firearm-related injuries became the lead-

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   Most are caused by malnutrition, birth conditions such as preterm birth, sepsis and trauma, and infectious diseases such as pneumonia, malaria, and HIV/AIDS. These have all declined substantially in many, but not all, parts of the world – child deaths were a grim constant in the past.