{"id":6608,"date":"2022-09-23T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6608"},"modified":"2022-09-23T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:30:00","slug":"quickstats-death-rates-from-unintentional-falls-among-persons-aged-%e2%89%a565-years-by-age-group-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-1999-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/09\/23\/6608\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Death Rates from Unintentional Falls\u00a0Among Persons Aged \u226565 Years, by Age Group \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1999\u20132020"},"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\/mm7138a4-F.gif?_=67612\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"227\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During 1999\u20132020, death rates from unintentional falls among persons aged \u226565 years increased among all age groups. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The largest increase occurred among persons aged \u226585 years, from 110.2 per 100,000 population in 1999 to 291.5 in 2020. Among persons aged 75\u201384 years, the rate increased from 31.5 to 67.9, and among those aged 65\u201374 years, the rate increased from 9.0 to 18.2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the period, rates were highest among persons aged \u226585 years, followed by rates among persons aged 75\u201384 years, and were lowest among persons aged 65\u201374 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7138a4.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7138a4.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 1999\u20132020, death rates from unintentional falls among persons aged \u226565 years increased among all age groups. The largest increase occurred among persons aged \u226585 years, from 110.2 per 100,000 population in 1999 to 291.5 in 2020. Among persons aged 75\u201384 years, the rate increased from 31.5 to 67.9, and among those aged 65\u201374 years,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14337,30756,20939,47317,53752,59554,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608"}],"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=6608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}