Now, slowly, those gains are being eaten away.įortunately, some steps are being taken to address causes of excess mortality at the federal level. Clean air and water, improved sanitation and refrigeration systems, public education, vaccines and life-saving drugs, and management of chronic diseases all have added years to the average American's lifespan and virtually guaranteed that a child born in the United States would be expected to live longer than his or her parents. For other opioids, drug overdose death rates remained unchanged: Drug overdose death rates for methadone (1.0 per 100,000), natural and semisynthetic opioids (4.4 per 100,000) and heroin (4.9 per 100,000) were the same in 2017 as in 2016.Īmericans have enjoyed an unprecedented run at living longer, healthier lives for much of the 20th century. It reported a total of 70,237 such deaths in 2017, which yielded an age-adjusted rate that was 9.6 percent higher in 2017 than in 2016.ĭrug overdose death rates increased across all age groups, with the highest rate occurring in adults ages 35-44 (39 per 100,000) and the lowest in adults 65 and older (6.9 per 100,000).Ī sharp increase in drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone was seen between 20, with the age-adjusted rate involving drugs such as fentanyl, fentanyl analogs and tramadol shooting up 45 percent during that period. The second CDC brief used information from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to analyze drug overdose deaths in the United States from 1999 to 2017. Death rates for cancer actually decreased by 2.1 percent, while heart disease and kidney disease rates did not change significantly. Age-adjusted death rates increased significantly for seven of the 10 causes, led by influenza and pneumonia (5.9 percent), unintentional injuries (4.2 percent) and suicide (3.7 percent). The 10 leading causes of death remained the same from 2016 to 2017: heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, influenza and pneumonia, kidney disease, and suicide. That percentage represents a rise from 728.8 deaths per 100,000 standard population to 731.9 per 100,000. Death rates rose significantly in three age groups during that period (i.e., in those 25-34, 35-44, and 85 and older) and dropped in 45- to 54-year-olds, yielding an overall age-adjusted increase of 0.4 percent. More than 2.8 million deaths occurred in the United States in 2017, an increase of about 70,000 from the previous year. Data from the brief and that earlier report showed that average life expectancy decreased from 78.9 years in 2014 to 78.7 years in 2015, remained unchanged between 20, and then decreased again between 20 to the current 78.6 years.
The first of those CDC briefs updated a report the agency published in September and provided a snapshot of longevity rates in the United States throughout 2017.
Data Briefs Address Mortality, Drug Overdose, Suicide Rates
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