Deaths from Homicide

Homicide: Deaths

Deaths from Homicide: 16,889 annual deaths in 1999 (NVSR Sep 2001)

Death Rate Extrapolation

Death rate extrapolations for USA for Homicide: 16,889 per year, 1,407 per month, 324 per week, 46 per day, 1 per hour, 0 per minute, 0 per second. Note: this automatic extrapolation calculation uses the deaths statistic: 16,889 annual deaths in 1999 (NVSR Sep 2001)

Homicide: Life Years Lost

Average life years lost from Homicide: 44.9 years (SEER)¹; 46.0 in North Carolina²; 46.1 average YPLL/person for homicide in Michigan³.

Death statistics for Homicide

The following are statistics from various sources about deaths and Homicide:

6.6 per 100,000 males died from homicide using firearms in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
1.3 per 100,000 females died from homicide using firearms in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
7.1 per 100,000 people died from homicide in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
10.8 per 100,000 men died from homicide in USA 2001 (NCHS, 2003)
21.2 per 100,000 black people died from homicide in USA 2001 (NCHS, 2003)
3.3 per 100,000 women died from homicide in USA 2001 (NCHS, 2003)
4.2 per 100,000 Asian/Pacific Islander people died from homicide in USA 2001 (NCHS, 2003)
4.9 per 100,000 white people died from homicide in USA 2001 (NCHS, 2003)
6.8 per 100,000 American Indian or Alaska Native people died from homicide in USA 2001 (NCHS, 2003)
7.1 per 100,000 people died from homicide in USA 2001 (NCHS, 2003)
8.3 per 100,000 Hispanic/Latino people in USA 2001 (NCHS, 2003)
Homicide death statistics by age in USA:
- homicide caused 2.8% of deaths for non-neonate infants in USA 1999 [NVSR 2001]
- homicide caused 7.2% of deaths for age 1-4 years in USA 1999 [NVSR 2001]
- homicide caused 5.4% of deaths for age 5-9 years in USA 1999 [NVSR 2001]
- homicide caused 6.0% of deaths for age 10-14 years in USA 1999 [NVSR 2001]
- homicide caused 15.2% of deaths for age 15-19 years in USA 1999 [NVSR 2001]
- homicide caused 17.2% of deaths for age 20-24 years in USA 1999 [NVSR 2001]
- homicide caused 10.3% of deaths for age 25-34 years in USA 1999 [NVSR 2001]
- homicide caused 3.6% of deaths for age 35-44 years in USA 1999 [NVSR 2001]
10.8 per 100,000 males died from homicide in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
3.3 per 100,000 females died from homicide in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
Death statistics by racial and gender groups in the USA:
- 8.3 per 100,000 Hispanic people died from homicide in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
- 12.9 per 100,000 Hispanic males died from homicide in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
- 3.1 per 100,000 Hispanic females died from homicide in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
- 6.8 per 100,000 non-Hispanic people died from homicide in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
- 10.3 per 100,000 non-Hispanic males died from homicide in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
- 3.3 per 100,000 non-Hispanic females died from homicide in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
- 4 per 100,000 non-Hispanic white people died from homicide in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
- 5.6 per 100,000 non-Hispanic white males died from homicide in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
- 2.5 per 100,000 non-Hispanic white females died from homicide in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
- 21.7 per 100,000 non-Hispanic black people died from homicide in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
- 37.2 per 100,000 non-Hispanic black males died from homicide in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
- 7.5 per 100,000 non-Hispanic black females died from homicide in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
Per 100,000 people died from homicidal poisoning in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
0.2 per 100,000 people died from homicidal suffocation in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
0.0 per 100,000 people died from a suicidal transport injury in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
17.5 per 100,000 people died from transport injury in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
16.4 per 100,000 people died from unintentional transport injury in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
1.1 per 100,000 people died from homicidal transport injury in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
4 per 100,000 people died from homicidal firearm injury in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
0.0 per 100,000 people died from homicidal fire/flame injury in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
0.1 per 100,000 people died from homicidal fire or hot object/substance injury in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
0.0 per 100,000 people died from homicidal drowning in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)
0.7 per 100,000 people died from homicidal cutting or piercing injury in the US 2001 (National Vital Statistics Report, CDC, 2003)

Deaths from Homicide: medical news summaries

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Footnotes:
1. SEER Cancer Statistics Review 1975-2000, National Cancer Institute (NCI)
2. Years of Potential Life Lost in North Carolina, NCMJ March/April 2002, Volume 63, Number 2
3. Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, MDCH, Michigan, USA

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