Leading Causes of Death in the US, 2019-2023

Farida B Ahmad; Jodi A Cisewski; Robert N Anderson

doi:10.1001/jama.2024.15563

Leading Causes of Death in the US, 2019-2023

JAMA. 2024 Sep 24;332(12):957-958. doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.15563.

Authors

Farida B Ahmad¹, Jodi A Cisewski¹, Robert N Anderson¹

Affiliation

¹ National Center for Health Statistics, Mortality Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland.

PMID: 39116093
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.15563

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This Viewpoint from the National Center for Health Statistics reports the leading causes of death in the US from 2019 to 2023, including the emergence of COVID-19 and shifts in other top causes as pandemic deaths decreased.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / mortality
Cause of Death* / trends
Death Certificates*
Humans
Pandemics / statistics & numerical data
United States / epidemiology