{"id":6604,"date":"2022-09-16T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6604"},"modified":"2022-09-16T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:30:00","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-total-deaths-by-age-and-hispanic-origin-and-race-united-states-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/09\/16\/6604\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Total Deaths, by Age and Hispanic Origin and Race\u00a0\u2014 United States, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7137a6-F.gif?_=59096\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"203\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Significant differences in the age distribution of deaths by race and ethnicity were observed in the United States during 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decedents aged &lt;65 years accounted for 26% of all U.S. deaths, but they accounted for approximately 50% of deaths among American Indian or Alaska Native (AI\/AN) and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander (NH\/OPI) persons, 40% of deaths among Black or African American (Black) and Hispanic or Latino (Hispanic) persons, and 20% of deaths among Asian and White persons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smaller differences were noted among persons aged 65\u201384 years. Among persons aged \u226585 years, the pattern was reversed, with the percentage of all deaths ranging from approximately 11% among AI\/AN and NH\/OPI persons to 33% for Asian and White persons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0National Vital Statistics System, Underlying Cause of Death by Single-Race Categories, 2018\u20132020.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/ucd-icd10-expanded.html\">https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/ucd-icd10-expanded.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7137a6.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7137a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Significant differences in the age distribution of deaths by race and ethnicity were observed in the United States during 2020. Decedents aged &lt;65 years accounted for 26% of all U.S. deaths, but they accounted for approximately 50% of deaths among American Indian or Alaska Native (AI\/AN) and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander (NH\/OPI) persons,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,63673,53752,53747],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604"}],"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=6604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}