CDC Leading Causes of Death by State (1999-2017)

Dataset · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · primary source ↗

Every US state × year × leading cause of death — 10.9k rows from CDC NCHS Underlying Cause of Death data. Each row: state, year, ICD-10 113-cause code, plain-English cause name (Heart disease, Cancer, Stroke, Suicide, Diabetes, etc), total deaths, age-adjusted death rate (per 100k). Surfaces geographic disparities: which states have higher heart disease vs cancer vs suicide rates.

Source agency
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
License
CC0 / US public domain
Coverage
10,868 state-year-cause rows
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Keywords

CDC leading causes of deathstate mortalityheart disease by statecancer rates by stateage-adjusted death rate

Provenance

Every record in this dataset can be traced back to its primary source at https://data.cdc.gov/resource/bi63-dtpu. Underlying content is a US federal government work (public domain under 17 USC §105); our derived data is licensed CC0 1.0.

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