U.S. Traumatic Brain Injury Mortality Report: 2024 Rate Fell to 18.0 per 100,000 From 2021 Peak
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released a report titled Traumatic Brain Injury Mortality in the United States, 2024 on November 10, putting the U.S. death rate from traumatic brain injury (TBI) at 18.0 deaths per 100,000 people in 2024, down from a peak of 19.6 per 100,000 in 2021.
Drawing on data from the National Vital Statistics System, the report describes trends in TBI death rates and examines differences by sex and age group, race and Hispanic origin, census region, injury intent and injury mechanism, and compares TBIs as a percentage of total deaths and total injury deaths by demographic group and census region.
The trend shows the U.S. TBI death rate at 17.1 per 100,000 in 2018, rising to 18.0 in 2020 and a high of 19.6 in 2021, then easing each year since: 19.2 in 2022, 18.7 in 2023 and 18.0 in 2024. Reducing fatal traumatic brain injuries is one of the objectives tracked under the federal Healthy People 2030 program, and the 2024 figure remains above the 2018 baseline.
The report appears in the National Vital Statistics Reports series with DOI 10.15620/cdc/252477. The CDC says a public access version of the report will be available on November 13.
(Source: National Center for Health Statistics)
Source: National Center for Health Statistics
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