Top 10 Leading Causes of Death: United States, 1999–2013

This dashboard presents the age-adjusted death rates for the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States, including mortality patterns from 1999 through 2013, and by state of residence for selected year and cause of death.

NOTES:

† Data are based on information from all resident death certificates filed in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, using demographic and medical characteristics. Age-adjusted death rates (deaths per 100,000 population) are based on the 2000 U.S. standard population.  Populations used for computing death rates for 2011–2013 are postcensal estimates based on the 2010 census, estimated as of July 1, 2000.  Rates for census years are based on populations enumerated in the corresponding censuses. Rates for non-census years before 2010 are revised using updated intercensal population estimates and may differ from rates previously published.

Causes of death classified by the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD–10) are ranked according to the number of deaths assigned to rankable causes. Cause-of-death statistics are based on the underlying cause of death.
 

SOURCES:

CDC/NCHS, National Vital Statistics System, mortality data: (see http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/deaths.htm); and CDC WONDER: (see http://wonder.cdc.gov).
 

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References:

1. Heron M: Deaths Leading causes for 2010. National vital statistics reports; vol 62 no 6. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2013. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr62/nvsr62_06.pdf.
2. Xu JQ, Murphy SL, Kochanek KD, et al. Deaths: final data for 2013. National vital statistics reports; vol 64 no 2. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2015. Forthcoming.

Suggested citation:

Tejada-Vera B, Chong Y, Lu L, Sutton PD:  Top 10 leading causes of death: United States, 1999–2013. National Center for Health Statistics, 2015.