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CDC provisional data through early 2025 show that U.S. suicide rates remained high and largely stable compared with recent years: the overall age-adjusted suicide rate was about 14.1 deaths per 100,00...
There is no reliable, single-number count of Americans who “starved to death” in 2024; existing datasets and peer-reviewed studies cover malnutrition and food-insecurity trends through 2020–2023 but d...
The available analyses converge on a clear finding: . Multiple 2025 analyses further report worsening child health across mortality, chronic conditions, obesity, and mental health domains compared wit...
The available analyses do not provide a definitive, ranked list of the top five causes of death among children under 18 in the United States for 2024; existing materials instead describe trends and pa...
Available reporting shows mixed and provisional findings for 2024–2025: national age‑adjusted suicide rates were broadly flat from 2022–2023 (about 14.1–14.2 per 100,000) with roughly 49,000 deaths in...
The claim that 300,000 Americans die from drug-related causes in a single year is not supported by U.S. mortality data: recent national counts and provisional reports put annual drug-involved overdose...
Homicide rates per 100,000 in the U.S. have shown persistent and large racial disparities over roughly the last 20–30 years: Black and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations—especially youn...
The CDC’s provisional data system (CDC WONDER/NCHS provisional mortality) provides interim suicide rates by age group for recent years, with data accessed March 11, 2025 representing deaths received t...
The cited materials present two overlapping claims: officially reported global COVID-19 deaths for 2020 are substantially lower than estimates based on excess-mortality methods, and U.S. provisional d...
The available data show ; instead, public sources rely on provisional counts and recent finalized numbers through 2023. Provisional CDC/NCHS counts covering the 12 months ending December 2024 report a...
U.S. male life expectancy at birth recovered to 75.8 years in the most recent CDC reporting (figure for 2023) after pandemic-era declines, with improvements in 2023 concentrated across racial and Hisp...
When homicide rates are adjusted for population, Black and American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) males — especially those aged roughly 15–44 — show the highest per‑capita homicide rates in national dat...
U.S. infant deaths numbered about 20,145 in 2023 with an infant mortality rate of 560.2 per 100,000 live births (which CDC presents as 5.602 per 1,000) and was essentially unchanged from 2022 (20,553 ...
States moved toward issuing certificates of live birth as part of a long, . Federal initiatives beginning in the early 20th century created reporting standards and expansion incentives, World War II a...
The available data show that U.S. suicide rates rose from a decline after 2018 to stabilize at a , with provisional counts for 2024 and early 2025 indicating continued high levels near and roughly ; h...
States began moving toward standardized birth registration in the early 20th century: the Census Bureau issued recommended standard forms around 1900–1902 and a national birth‑registration area was es...
Claims that roughly "10,000 Americans starve to death each year" have been repeatedly questioned; public records and peer‑reviewed papers point to far smaller counts for deaths explicitly coded as sta...
U.S. birth-certificate formats evolved from scattered, local paper records in the 19th century to state-issued certificates guided by a federal "U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth" that the Natio...
The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics produced state-level life tables for 2020 and an interactive map of life expectancy by state and sex, and those sources are the authoritative place to e...
Available national sources do not provide a single, definitive ranked list of U.S. states’ overall “child mortality” (broadly ages 0–19 or 1–14) for calendar year 2024 in the search results provided; ...