Data reveal total injury death rate increased from 2013 to 2021, followed by decline

The whole damage loss of life price in the USA elevated from 2013 by 2021, then declined by 2023, in response to a March knowledge transient revealed by the Nationwide Middle for Well being Statistics.

Sally C. Curtin, from the Nationwide Middle for Well being Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, presents traits in damage loss of life charges general and by three main intents (unintentional, suicide, and murder) for 2003 to 2023.

Curtin discovered that the full age-adjusted damage loss of life price elevated 21% from 2013 to 2019 (58.8 to 71.2 per 100,000 commonplace U.S. inhabitants) after a interval of stability from 2003 to 2013; there was a further 25% enhance by 2021 (89.0), adopted by a 4% decline by 2023 (85.3).

From 2003 to 2019, there was a threefold enhance in unintentional drug overdose loss of life charges, adopted by a 58% enhance by 2022 and a 4% decline by 2023. From 2006 to 2018, there was a rise in firearm-involved suicide loss of life charges, adopted by a decline in 2019 and a rise by 2021; charges remained steady by 2023.

The firearm-involved murder loss of life price declined from 2003 to 2014, then elevated by 2021, and declined by 2023.

“Drug overdose was the main methodology of unintentional damage deaths throughout 2013 to 2023,” Curtis writes. “Loss of life charges elevated from 2003 to 2022, with the biggest enhance from 2019 to 2022.”

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