QuickStats: Injury Deaths As a Percentage of Total Deaths, by Age Group — National Vital Statistics System (U.S.), United States, 2019

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• Alternative Title:
  Injury Deaths as a Percentage of Total Deaths, by Age Group — National Vital Statistics System (U.S.), United States, 2019
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Hedegaard, Holly ; Garnett, Matthew F. ; Spencer, Merianne R.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  Injuries accounted for the majority of deaths among persons aged 15–39 years, with the highest percentages among those aged 15–19 (76.0%) and 20–24 years (78.2%). The percentage of injury deaths was lowest among those aged <1 year (7.9%), 60–64 years (7.5%), and ≥65 years (3.4%).
  
  Source: National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System (U.S.), Mortality Data, 2019. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/deaths.htm
  
  Reported by: Holly Hedegaard, MD; Matthew F. Garnett, MPH; Merianne R. Spencer, MPH.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Disease Notification Epidemiology Public Health Public Health Surveillance
• Source:
  MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 70(31):1066
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Document Type:
  Charts, Diagrams, Etc.
• Genre:
  QuickStats ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• Volume:
  70
• Issue:
  31
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:33b1d724cf660c869fb03fa70797d76a3c18c04449b1471a0c11063dd468df29acb62df5f557c20b5ff1fab0971de9cf8a1ffa8347b28acf79bafa3b8bf771d6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/109798/cdc_109798_DS1.pdf
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