Unintentional Drowning Deaths Among Children Aged 0–17 Years: United States, 1999–2019

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• Personal Author:
  Spencer, Merianne Rose ; Hedegaard, Holly ; Warner, Margaret
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  Data from the NationalVital Statistics System, Mortality
  
  • Over the past 2 decades, the rate of unintentional drowning deaths among children aged 0–17 years declined 38%, from 1.6 per 100,000 in 1999 to 1.0 in 2019.
  
  • Unintentional drowning death rates among children were highest for those aged 1–4, with rates decreasing from 3.2 in 1999 to 2.4 in 2019.
  
  • In 1999–2019, unintentional drowning death rates were higher for non-Hispanic black children compared with non-Hispanic white and Hispanic children.
  
  • For the period, unintentional drowning death rates were higher for children in rural compared with urban counties.
  
  • During 2018–2019, the highest percentage of unintentional drowning deaths occurred in bathtubs for ages under 1 year, in swimming pools for ages 1–4 and 5–13, and in natural bodies of water for ages 14–17.
  
  Drowning deaths are the second leading cause of unintentional injury deaths for children aged 0–17 years and the leading cause for those aged 1–4 (1). Previous studies using national data have shown that unintentional drowning deaths can differ by sex, age, race and ethnicity, and urban–rural category (2,3). This report uses the latest mortality data from the NationalVital Statistics System (NVSS) to present national trends in unintentional drowning death rates from 1999 through 2019 for children aged 0–17.
  
  Suggested citation: Spencer MR, Hedegaard H, Warner M. Unintentional drowning deaths among children aged 0–17 years: United States, 1999–2019. NCHS Data Brief, no 413. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2021. DOI: https:// dx.doi.org/10.15620/cdc:107521.
  
  CS325059
  
  https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db413-H.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accidental Injuries Child Drowning Mortality
• Keywords:
  vital statistics, drowning, death rate
• Source:
  National Vital Statistics System
• Series:
  NCHS Data Briefs
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  7 pdf pages
• Issue:
  413
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
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