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
- Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2019 (4/2021)
- Drug Poisoning Mortality, by State and by Race and Ethnicity: United States, 2019 (3/2021)
- U.S. State Life Tables, 2018 pdf icon[PDF – 643 KB] (3/2021)
- Early Provisional Estimates of Drug Overdose, Suicide, and Transportation-related Deaths: Nowcasting Methods to Account for Reporting Lags pdf icon[PDF – 960 KB] (2/2021)
- Provisional Life Expectancy Estimates for January through June, 2020 pdf icon[PDF – 732 KB] Supplemental Tables pdf icon[PDF – 885 KB] (2/2021)
- Provisional Life Expectancy Estimates for January through June, 2020 pdf icon[PDF – 732 KB] (2/2021)
- 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: April 1, 2021
Content source: National Center for Health Statistics