Infant, Child, and Teen Death Rates (per 100,000) for Selected Years, 1980-2003

1980

1985

1990

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

Under 1 Year¹

1288.3

1088.1

971.9

768.8

755.7

738.7

751.3

731.4

736.7

683.4

695.0

700.0

Male

1428.5

1219.9

1082.8

843.8

828.0

812.8

818.2

801.5

806.5

749.8

761.5

777.4

Female

1141.7

950.6

855.7

690.1

680.0

661.1

681.3

658.1

663.4

613.9

625.3

619.1

Race and Hispanic Origin

White, non-Hispanic

572.7

596.5

555.4

575.9

576.5

Black

1551.1

1426.1

1304.5

1263.6

1273.8

Hispanic²

611.5

596.3

572.7

592.7

610.1

Asian/Pacific Islander

388.6

483.0

412.5

427.4

463.1

American Indian/Alaskan Native

806.3

598.4

650.4

822.1

795.8

Ages 1-4

63.9

51.8

46.8

40.6

38.3

35.8

34.6

34.7

32.4

33.3

31.2

31.5

Male

72.6

58.5

52.4

44.8

42.2

39.7

37.6

38.5

35.9

37.0

35.2

35.1

Female

54.7

44.8

41.0

36.2

34.3

31.8

31.4

30.8

28.7

29.5

27.0

27.8

Race and Hispanic Origin

White, non-Hispanic

45.3

37.6

33.9

32.1

31.1

29.4

29.7

28.5

30.1

27.1

27.6

Black

97.6

80.7

76.8

70.3

67.6

59.2

61.6

58.9

49.9

47.5

47.1

46.8

Hispanic²

46.1

43.5

36.7

33.6

31.3

30.4

32.1

29.6

30.6

29.8

30.2

Asian/Pacific Islander

43.2

40.1

38.6

25.4

25.1

18.7

23.0

21.6

22.3

23.4

22.5

American Indian/Alaskan Native

51.4

42.4

48.0

45.2

50.3

Ages 5-14

30.6

26.5

24.0

22.5

21.7

20.8

19.9

19.2

18.0

17.3

17.4

17.0

Male

36.7

31.8

28.5

26.7

25.4

24.0

23.4

22.2

20.9

19.8

20.0

19.8

Female

24.2

21.0

19.3

18.2

17.8

17.4

16.2

16.1

15.0

14.6

14.7

14.0

Race and Hispanic Origin

White, non-Hispanic

23.1

21.5

20.1

19.3

19.0

18.0

17.5

17.1

16.3

16.0

15.6

Black

39.0

35.5

34.4

33.4

32.1

31.1

29.4

28.7

24.2

23.3

24.5

22.9

Hispanic²

19.3

20.0

20.5

20.3

17.2

16.9

15.7

14.7

15.5

15.7

Asian/Pacific Islander

24.2

20.8

16.9

16.8

14.3

15.6

15.1

12.2

12.3

12.2

12.4

10.6

American Indian/Alaskan Native

22.4

19.0

22.0

21.6

20.1

Ages 15-19

97.9

80.5

87.9

83.1

78.6

74.8

70.6

69.8

68.2

66.9

67.8

66.4

Male

96.3

94.9

93.7

94.0

92.3

Female

41.7

40.0

38.5

40.1

39.0

Race and Hispanic Origin

White, non-Hispanic

64.7

63.3

63.4

65.5

62.9

Black

93.6

89.0

86.3

82.0

80.0

Hispanic²

67.3

68.5

63.1

65.2

67.2

Asian/Pacific Islander

40.0

38.4

38.0

37.0

38.5

American Indian/Alaskan Native

104.4

105.2

94.5

91.2

96.9

¹Death rates for "Under 1 year" (based on population estimates) differ from infant mortality rates (based on live births)

²Persons of Hispanic origin may be of any race. Source: Data for total, male, and female for under 1 year, 1-4, and 5-14 for 1980-1999 from National Center for Health Statistics. (2002) Health United States, 2002 With Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2002. Table 36.; Data for race/ethnicity for ages 1-4, 5-14 from 1980-1999 and total for ages 15-19 from 1980-1998 from Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2002. Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. Tables Health 6.A., Health 6.B. and Health 7.; Data for race/ethinicity for under 1 year in 1999 and all data for ages 15-19 for 1999 from Hoyert DL, Arias E, Smith BL, Murphy SL, Kochanek KD. "Deaths: Final Data for 1999." National vital statistics reports: 49(8). Hyattsville, Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics. 2001. Tables 2, 3 and 4; Data for Ages 15-19 in 2000 from Minino AM, Arias E. Kochanek KD, Murphy SL, Smith BL. "Deaths: Final Data for 2000." National vital statistics reports: 50 (15). Hyattsville, Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics. 2002. Tables 3-5; Data for ages under 1 year, 1-4 and 5-14 for 2000 from Arias, E, Smith BL. Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2001.
National vital statistics reports: 51(5). Hyattsville, Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics, 2003. Table 1. Data for 2001 from: Arias, Elizabeth, Robert Anderson,
Hsiang-Ching Kung, Sherry Murphy and Kenneth Kochanek, (2003). Deaths: Final Data for 2001. National vital statistics reports: 52(3). Hyattsville, Maryland: National
Center for Health Statistics. Tables 3 and 4. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_03.pdf.

Data for 2002 from: Kenneth D. Kochanek, Sherry L. Murphy, Robert N. Anderson, and Chester Scott. "Deaths: Final Data for 2002" National Vital Statistics Reports, 53(5): Table 4. Estimates for ages 5-14 are based on Child Trends calculations using July 1, 2002 population estimates based on the 2000 US Census, as presented in Table 1 from the same report. Data for 2003: Hoyert DL, Heron MP, Murphy SL, Kung H. (2006) "Deaths: Final Data for 2003." National vital statistics reports; vol 54 no 13. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr54/nvsr54_13.pdf