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Share of children born alive that die before the age of 5 (2017) [1] Breakdown of child mortality by cause, OWID. Child mortality is the death of children under the age of five. [2] The child mortality rate (also under-five mortality rate) refers to the probability of dying between birth and exactly five years of age expressed per 1,000 live ...
Injuries and violence are "the leading causes of death among children, adolescents, and young adults in the US" with underlying risk factors for such including "detrimental community, family, or individual circumstances" that increase the likelihood of violence.
Firearms were the leading cause of death for children and teenagers in the United States for the third consecutive year, and homicides accounted for the majority of gun deaths among the age group ...
For the past few years, guns have been identified as the leading cause of death for children in the United States.. There were 2,571 children aged 1 to 17 who died in shootings in the U.S. in 2021 ...
The leading causes of death were fairly consistent for years until the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Once the pandemic started, the virus was the third leading cause of death in 2020 and the years ...
[1] [19] Injury is the leading cause of death in this age group in the United States—greater than all other causes combined. [20] It is also the leading cause of permanent paralysis for children. [21] [22] In the US approximately 16,000,000 children go to a hospital emergency room due to some kind of injury every year. [4]
Gun-related deaths among children in the U.S. reached a distressing peak in 2021, claiming 4,752 young lives and surpassing the record total seen during the first year of the pandemic, a new ...
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