{"id":7840,"date":"2025-09-10T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7840"},"modified":"2025-09-10T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:26:00","slug":"nchs-provisional-report-on-u-s-mortality-for-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2025\/09\/10\/7840\/","title":{"rendered":"NCHS Provisional Report on U.S. Mortality for 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NCHS has just released a new report titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/vsrr\/vsrr039.pdf\">Mortality in the United States: Provisional Data, 2024<\/a>.\u201d This report offers an early snapshot of death rates across the country, breaking down the data by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. It also highlights the leading causes of death in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-09-111906.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7841 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-09-111906.png\" alt=\"Chart showing the top 10 leading underlying causes of death in the United States. The top 3 leading causes of death include heart disease, cancer and unintentional injury.\" width=\"406\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the top three causes of death in 2024 are heart disease, which accounted for 683,037 deaths, followed by cancer with 619,812 deaths, and unintentional injury, which resulted in 196,488 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>A noteworthy change in this year\u2019s report is that suicide has now taken the place of COVID-19 as the 10th leading cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCHS has just released a new report titled \u201cMortality in the United States: Provisional Data, 2024.\u201d This report offers an early snapshot of death rates across the country, breaking down the data by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. It also highlights the leading causes of death in the United States. According to the report,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,53756],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840"}],"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\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7846,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions\/7846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}