{"id":5432,"date":"2021-02-05T11:30:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T16:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5432"},"modified":"2021-02-05T11:30:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T16:30:33","slug":"quickstats-death-rates-for-motor-vehicle-traffic-injuries-suicide-and-homicide-among-adolescents-and-young-adults-aged-15-24-years-united-states-1999-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/02\/05\/5432\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Death Rates for Motor-Vehicle\u2013Traffic Injuries, Suicide, and Homicide Among Adolescents and Young Adults Aged 15\u201324 Years \u2014 United States, 1999\u20132019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7005a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/figures\/mm7005a6-F.gif\" width=\"449\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mortality rates for adolescents and young adults aged 15\u201324 years for deaths from motor-vehicle\u2013traffic injury, suicide, and homicide remained relatively stable during 1999\u20132006 and then exhibited different patterns through 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999, the rate for motor-vehicle\u2013traffic deaths was 25.6 per 100,000 population and declined to 13.7 in 2019. The suicide rate was 10.1 in 1999 and increased to 14.5 in 2018 before declining to 13.9 in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The homicide rate was 12.9 in 1999 and declined to 9.5 in 2014 before increasing to 11.2 in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the death rates for motor-vehicle\u2013traffic injury and suicide were similar; both rates were higher than the homicide rate.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data, 2009\u20132019.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7005a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7005a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortality rates for adolescents and young adults aged 15\u201324 years for deaths from motor-vehicle\u2013traffic injury, suicide, and homicide remained relatively stable during 1999\u20132006 and then exhibited different patterns through 2019. In 1999, the rate for motor-vehicle\u2013traffic deaths was 25.6 per 100,000 population and declined to 13.7 in 2019. The suicide rate was 10.1 in 1999<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62348,47317,53752,15995,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}