Mortality Statistics
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National-level mortality data help track the characteristics of those who have died, monitor and make decisions about public health challenges, determine life expectancy, and compare death trends with other countries. Learn more
What's New
- Deaths: Final Data for 2018 pdf icon[PDF – 2 MB] Supplemental Tables pdf icon[PDF – 3 MB] (1/2021)
- Unsuitable Underlying Causes of Death for Assessing the Quality of Cause-of-death Reporting pdf icon[PDF – 588 KB] (1/2021)
- Mortality in the United States, 2019 (12/2020)
- Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999–2019 (12/2020)
- Motor Vehicle Traffic Death Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults Aged 15–24, by Urbanicity: United States, 2000–2018 (10/2020)
- Rates of Alcohol-induced Deaths Among Adults Aged 25 and Over in Urban and Rural Areas: United States, 2000–2018 (10/2020)
Page last reviewed: January 12, 2021
Content source: National Center for Health Statistics