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Inter-governmental demographic data sharing system in the United States
Death certificates in the U.S. are completed by a certifier (physician, medical examiner or coroner) and filed with the local or state vital records office; the U.S. Standard Certificate of Death is t...
No single number for “ through 2025” can be confidently extracted from the reporting provided here, because the supplied sources describe the surveillance systems, modeling efforts, and caveats about ...
Knife-enabled homicides in England and Wales rose to 262 in the year ending March 2024, up 8% from the prior year, and they accounted for 46% of the 570 homicides in 2023/24 (ONS/Home Office reporting...
States in the United States adopted standardized in stages: a standardized live‑birth form existed by the early 20th century and was effectively nationwide by the early 1930s, while the modern 2003 re...
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...
Actuarial life tables estimate remaining years by applying observed mortality rates at each age; a period table uses mortality in one year while a cohort table follows a birth cohort and projects futu...
The best available provisional U.S. counts from the assembled analyses show , a decline of roughly 47 percent between the two calendar years, with the age‑adjusted death rate falling from ; these figu...
for the through the and into 2023–2025 generally exceed the tally of confirmed COVID‑19 deaths that appear in ’s National Vital Statistics System (), reflecting deaths both directly attributable to SA...
Yes — multiple recent studies and government reports find measurable “excess deaths” in the United States compared both to expected baselines and to peer high‑income countries. Academic analyses estim...
Reporting methods and cause-of-death coding materially shaped the U.S. COVID-19 death totals: death certificates using ICD-10 code U07.1 captured deaths when clinicians listed COVID-19 as an underlyin...
In the United States, deaths involving synthetic opioids — overwhelmingly illicit fentanyl and its analogs — numbered roughly 72,776 in 2023, making fentanyl the single largest driver of overdose fata...