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The reduction in the death rate from Covid-19 has helped to reduce the overall US death rate by 6% by 2023, according to the interim report. Data Published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 3.1 million people died in the US last year, at an age-adjusted rate of 750 deaths per 100,000 people. In 2022, 799 deaths per 100,000 people.
In the year The U.S. death rate is declining rapidly after reaching nearly 880 deaths for every 100,000 people in 2021, but this interim data suggests that the death rate is still higher than in the pre-pandemic years. In the year 715 deaths per 100,000 people in 2019, CDC Data It shows.
As in previous years, heart disease, cancer and unintentional injuries — including drug overdoses — were the leading causes of death. These three main causes accounted for nearly half of all deaths last year. Cancer deaths in 2023 compared to 2022, heart disease deaths decreased.
Covid-19 fell from the fourth leading cause of death to the 10th. In the year About 76,000 people died from the virus in 2023, with more than 245,000 deaths in 2022, a 69% reduction.
Stroke has risen to the fourth leading cause of death, followed by chronic lower respiratory diseases, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, kidney disease and liver disease.
Overall, death rates across all age groups declined, but the reduction was not as significant for children under 5, the interim data showed.
All races and ethnicities also saw a decline in death rates last year, but the rate remained highest among blacks. The age-adjusted rate of 924 deaths per 100,000 people was 23 percent higher than the overall rate. By 2023, whites were more likely to die from Covid-19 than any other group.
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As in previous years, the death rate was higher for men than for women, but the difference narrowed slightly in 2023. There were 884 deaths per 100,000 men and 633 deaths per 100,000 women, age-adjusted data showed.
“Interim mortality estimates can provide an early indication of changes in mortality trends and can guide public health policies and interventions designed to reduce mortality among high-risk populations,” CDC researchers wrote in the new report.
This early information is subject to change, and it may take longer to complete death certificate information for certain causes of death or from certain parts of the US.