{"id":6029,"date":"2021-08-06T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6029"},"modified":"2021-08-06T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T14:30:00","slug":"quickstats-injury-deaths-as-a-percentage-of-total-deaths-by-age-group-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/08\/06\/6029\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Injury Deaths as a Percentage of Total Deaths, by Age Group \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6031\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/mm7031a3-f.gif\" alt=\"mm7031a3-f\" width=\"437\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Injuries accounted for the majority of deaths among persons aged 15\u201339 years, with the highest percentages among those aged 15\u201319 (76.0%) and 20\u201324 years (78.2%).<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of injury deaths was lowest among those aged &lt;1 year (7.9%), 60\u201364 years (7.5%), and \u226565 years (3.4%).<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data, 2019.\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\/mm7031a3.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7031a3.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Injuries accounted for the majority of deaths among persons aged 15\u201339 years, with the highest percentages among those aged 15\u201319 (76.0%) and 20\u201324 years (78.2%). The percentage of injury deaths was lowest among those aged &lt;1 year (7.9%), 60\u201364 years (7.5%), and \u226565 years (3.4%). Source:\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,20939,47317,53752,59554,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029"}],"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=6029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}