Mortality Trends in the U.S.
National Center for life expectancy for Health Statistics and infant mortality are measures often used to measure the overall health of the population. Life expectancy is a long-term upward trend and infant mortality reached a record low in 2000 and remained unchanged in 2001. In 2001, life expectancy at birth for the entire population reached a record high of 77.2 years, based on preliminarydata, compared with 75.4 years in 1990. In 2001 the infant mortality rate did not change from its2000 record 6.9 infant deaths per thousand live births, according to preliminary data.Since 1950, the mortality rate among adolescents and young adults AGE1524 year by 38 percent to 80 deaths per 100 grams, 000 people sank in 2000. The overall mortality in 1524 years has declined, partly
because of declining death ratesfor unintentional injuries, cancer, heart disease and infectious diseases. The rate of suicide and murder increasedover general this period, but has declined since the mid-1990s. Between 1950 and 2000 the mortality rate among adults aged 2544 years by 44 percent overall decline to 155 deaths per 100 grams, 000.The mortality rate for unintentional injuries, cancer, heart disease and tuberculosis decreasedsubstantially during this period.Suicide rates rose through1980 and has since declined slightly. HIV infection was theleading cause of death in this age group in the mid-1990s, with rates of HIV infection by reducing death, the cause of death was 1997-2000, the fifth. Since 1950, mortality among adults aged 4564 years hasdecreased 49 percent
overall to 648 deaths per 100,000 population in 2000. During this period, death rates from heart disease, stroke, and unintentional injuries has decreased while cancer mortality has increased slowly during the 1980s and thendeclined.Cancer was the leading cause of death for children 4564 years 2000, representing over one third ofdeaths in this age group. Over the past 50 years, the mortality of persons 65 years and
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