US drug poisoning deaths by race, 1999 to 2020
US drug poisoning deaths by race stood at 27 in 2020, up 29.4% on the previous period.
US drug poisoning deaths by race, expressed as deaths per 100,000 population from death certificates compiled in CDC WONDER. Mortality data is the hardest of health statistics: every underlying record is a certified death, coded to standard cause-of-death categories, and the per-population rate makes groups and years directly comparable. The series runs from 1999, when the rate recorded 4.30, to 27.3 in 2020, up from 21.1 the period before.
Rates differ sharply across groups, and the gaps move over time: comparing the lines is the point of the breakdown. Because these are per-100,000 rates, group population sizes are already accounted for.
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