New Release on Unintentional Injury Death Rates in Rural and Urban Areas

Unintentional Injury Death Rates in Rural and Urban Areas: United States, 1999–2017

Key Findings
Data from the National Vital Statistics System:

• From 1999 through 2017, the age-adjusted unintentional injury death rate increased 40% from 35.3 deaths per 100,000 standard population to 49.4. 
• Motor vehicle traffic death rates increased across all levels of urbanization between 2014 and 2017, with the largest increase in small metropolitan (metro) counties.
• Unintentional drug overdose death rates increased across all levels of urbanization between 2014 and 2017, with the largest increase in large fringe metro counties.
• Unintentional fall death rates increased across urbanization levels except for large central metro counties between 2014 and 2017, with the largest increase in rural counties.

Keywords

motor vehicle traffic, unintentional drug overdose, unintentional fall, National Viral Statistics System (NVSS) 

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The Age-adjusted Unintentional Injury Death Rate Increased 40% from 1999 through 2017