US Causes of Death by Year Update 723

Accidental death has been added to the list in third place. Covid has moved to 4^th place. Sepsis has been dropped from this list, but appears on another list below. 

US Leading causes of deaths from 2020 to 2022 are listed below:

Cause                2020       2021       2022

Heart Disease  675068   695547   699659

Cancer             590518   605213   607790

Sepsis             270000    270000   350000

Accidents        200955    224935   218064

Covid19           327827   416893   186702

Stroke             156109    162890   123215        

Respiratory     149384    142342   107599

Alzheimer’s     131471   119399     87866

Diabetes          97793    103294     74716

Pneumonia      52867      41309     50635

Liver Failure    51642      56585     56585

Kidney Failure 37251      54358     42596

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/covid-19-leading-cause-of-death- COVID-19 leading cause of death ranking - Peterson-KFF Health System Trackerranking/#Total%20deaths%20in%20the%20United%20States%20from%20COVID-19%20and%20other%20leading%20causes,%202020-2022

Sepsis bacterial infections cause 350,000 deaths per year.

file:///C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/Sepsis-Fact-Sheet-2022-04-27-22_sk.pdf

https://usafacts.org/articles/top-causes-death-united-states-heart-disease-cancer-and-covid-19/

Comments

CDC and HHS do not maintain current data. Many data sites don’t include the dates of their data was posted or the dates of the data itself.  I found the Sepsis post on a disease specific website because it was included in the earlier 2020 list.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader