Read: Motor Vehicle Traffic Death Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults, 2000–2018

NCHS Data Brief, Number 385, October 2020

Motor Vehicle Traffic Death Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults Aged 15–24, by Urbanicity: United States, 2000–2018

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Data from the National Vital Statistics System

• The death rate due to motor vehicle traffic (MVT) injury for persons aged 15–24 was stable from 2000 to 2006, declined 36% from 2006 (25.1 per 100,000) to 2010 (16.1), and then was stable through 2018 (14.7).
• Over the 2000–2018 period, MVT death rates for males aged 15–24 in rural areas were about twice those of males in urban areas; similarly, rates were twice as high for females in rural rather than urban areas.

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death certificates, traffic accidents, National Vital Statistics System

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