Provisional Data: U.S. Death Rate Fell to a Record Low in 2025
Posted on byNCHS has released a new report—”Mortality in the United States: Provisional Data, 2025” that provides early estimates of deaths that occurred in the United States last year. According to the report, an estimated 3,094,593 people died in the United States in 2025. The death rate was 689.2 per 100,000—a 4.6% decrease from 2024 and a record low.
The new report includes numbers and rates of death by age, sex, and race and Hispanic origin. Rates fell for every age group and for both men and women in 2025.
The report also lists the 10 leading causes of death in 2025. The top three estimated causes of death in 2025 were heart disease with 694,708 deaths, cancer with 622,832 deaths, and unintentional injuries with 184,265 deaths. The report also notes changes in other cause rankings: influenza and pneumonia rose to the eighth leading cause of death, and suicide dropped from the tenth to the eleventh leading cause
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