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Infant, Child and Youth Death Rates Between 1980 and 2003, death rates dropped by 46 percent for infants, 51 percent for children ages 1 to 4, 44 percent for children ages 5 to 14, and 32 percent for teens ages 15 to 19... > View Indicator Infant Homicide The infant homicide rate increased from 4.3 per 100,000 in 1970 to 9.2 per 100,000 in 2000, before falling to 8.0 per 100,000 in 2004... > View Indicator Teen Homicide, Suicide, and Firearm Death Teen homicide, suicide, and firearm death rates declined overall from the mid- 1990s through 2004. However, suicide rates did increase slightly from 7.3 per 100,000 to 8.2 per 100,000 between 2003 and 2004... > View Indicator Motor Vehicle Deaths Motor vehicle death rates rise rapidly during the teen years and remain very high into early adulthood. (See Figure 3) Rates in 2004 increased from 22 deaths per 100,000 16-year-olds to 34 deaths per 100,000 18-year-olds, and then returned to 22 deaths per 100,000 for 24- and 25-year-olds...> View Indicator Life Expectancy Life expectancy for black newborns is still five years less than white newborns (73.1 versus 78.3 years, respectively), although the difference in 2004 was the smallest ever recorded...> View Indicator
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