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Apr 20, 2022 · Figure 1. 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...
Dec 19, 2018 · Among children 1 to 4 years of age, drowning was the most common cause of death, followed by congenital abnormalities and motor vehicle crashes. Children most commonly drown in swimming pools (1...
- Rebecca M. Cunningham, Maureen A. Walton, Patrick M. Carter
- 2018
Jun 13, 2023 · 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.
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Data are for the U.S.
•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)
•Trends in Child and Adolescent Health from Health, United States
•United States Life Tables, 2021 [PDF – 2 MB]
•U.S. State Life Tables, 2020 [PDF – 955 KB]
•National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2021 Emergency Department Summary Tables [PDF – 865 KB]
•National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2019 National Summary Tables [PDF – 864 KB]
•Long COVID in Children: United States, 2022
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•Mortality Statistics •National Health Interview Survey •National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey •National Institute for Child Health and Human Development •KIDS Count
Apr 20, 2022 · children and adolescents, becoming the third leading cause of death in that age group. This change is largely explained by the 110.6% in-crease in unintentional poisonings from 2019 to 2020.
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).
Globally, infectious diseases, including acute respiratory infections, diarrhoea and malaria, along with pre-term birth complications, birth asphyxia and trauma and congenital anomalies remain the leading causes of death for children under 5.
