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QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Death Rates* for Leading Causes of Injury
Death, by Year --- United States, 1979--2004
* Per 100,000 population.
Coded according to the
International Classification of Diseases, Ninth
Revision, during 1979--1998 and according to
the Tenth Revision during 1999--2004. Additional information regarding classification of deaths according to intent
and mechanism is available at
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr54/nvsr54_10.pdf.
During 1979--2004, the three leading causes of injury death in the United States were motor-vehicle
traffic,
firearm, and poisoning (including drug overdose). In 2004, for the first time since 1968, when such data
first became available, the number of reported poisoning deaths (30,308) and the age-adjusted poisoning
death rate (10.3 per 1000,000 population) exceeded the number of firearm deaths (29,569) and the firearm
death rate (10.0), respectively. During 1999--2004, the poisoning death rate increased 45%, whereas the
firearm death rate declined 3%; during the same period, no change occurred in the rate (14.7) for
motor-vehicle traffic deaths.
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