US Mortality & Disease Statistics
Explore leading causes of death across all 50 states. Data sourced from CDC WONDER, the CDC's public health research database.
Leading Causes of Death (2017)
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About This Data
PlainHealth provides free, open access to mortality statistics from the CDC's WONDER database. All data comes from the Underlying Cause of Death dataset, which covers deaths registered in all 50 US states and the District of Columbia.
Causes of death are classified using the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10). Age-adjusted rates use the year 2000 US standard population for comparability across states with different age distributions.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Underlying Cause of Death, accessed via CDC WONDER.