Also, suicide fell out of the top 10 leading causes of death in 2020 after the number and rate of suicide dropped for a 2 nd consecutive year.Īnd of course there was a new entry to the list of 10 leading causes of death in 2020.

Meanwhile, death rates decreased for 2 leading causes of death – cancer and chronic lung disease – and remained unchanged for another cause: kidney disease. Death rates increased for 6 of the 10 leading causes of death in 2020, including a nearly 17 percent increase in deaths from accidents or unintentional injuries… as well as a nearly 15 percent increase in deaths from diabetes. The final overall death rate in America rose from 715 deaths per 100,000 in 2019 to 835 per 100,000 in 2020 – a nearly 17 percent increase. Many of the 2020 findings had been released previously, in preliminary or provisional form: The final number on life expectancy showed a decline of 1.8 years in 2020. As in past years, these final death statistics focus on conditions or injuries that are listed as the underlying cause of death on the death certificate, and do not include conditions or injuries listed as a contributing cause on the death certs. HOST: NCHS closed out the year in December with the release of final data on deaths in the United States for 2020.

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