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What's going to kill you? [US, 2018-2023] (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz
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Not beautiful. More "interesting data set." Source: https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10-expanded.html

edited to correct off-by-one error in 5-14 year old column

Upper graph showing percentage of deaths in 10-year age brackets. Motor vehicle and firearm accidents peak at 14-25 year-old and decline exponentially. Poisoning death proportion peaks with 25-34 year olds. Cancer death percentage rises continuously to 65-74 year olds. Heart disease death proportion peaks among 85+ year olds. Lower graph show the rate of deaths per 100,000 people in the same age groups on a logarithmic scale. Motor vehicle and firearm accidents look consistently around 15/100,000 regardless of age. Poisoning deaths have a broad peak around 45/100,000 from age 25-65. Cancer and heart disease rise continuously to peak around 2000/100,000 among 85+.
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Am I wrong in interpreting these charts to mean that there was just no data about 5-14 year olds...? They are at 0 for both.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They just die of other things. The CDC tracks 20 different injury types and 45 broad non-injury causes of death. The 5-14 group die mostly of septicemia, "machinery" injuries, and an "Residual," "All other diseases" category, but even those big 3 only account for 40% of all 5-14 deaths.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's for the US, right? I'd have thought we'd have data for the gun violence in that age range, given how often schools get shot up.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago

    It took a while, but the repeated questions eventually got me to double check and find the 5-14 year old group was misaligned. Edited the post with corrected graphs. 5-14 year olds are (relatively) protected from guns & cars, but there's no tween-killing machinery running rampant.

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