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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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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

So I can trust my eyes! Thanks!

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