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What is the most common cause of death under 40?

A different common cause of death for each age group For people 5-24, accidents (over a third of which are drug overdoses) are the leading cause of death, followed by suicide and homicide. Accidents are the leading cause of death for people aged 25-44, followed by suicide and cancer.

usafacts.org - Most Common Causes of Death in The US - USAFacts

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Why measuring death matters

The government spends more than $1 trillion on health per year. Understanding why death rates continue to increase among specific populations and locations provides critical insights into where the US health care system is succeeding and failing. It can also provide insight into why the life expectancy of the United States continues to lag behind other advanced countries. The causes of death that are relatively well-addressed by the current healthcare system—heart disease, cancer, and diabetes—are killing fewer Americans than before. However, the increased prevalence of risk factors like obesity and high cholesterol levels have recently hampered some of these improvements. The causes of death rooted in complex mental health and substance abuse issues, such as drug overdoses and suicide, comprise a relatively small portion of deaths, but are increasing faster than most other causes.

*How USAFacts measures death

Other than in the last two visualizations, this piece uses a measure called the age-adjusted death rate. The age-adjusted death rate takes the death rate per 100,000 individuals (deaths / population * 100,000) and weights it according to the population size of each age group. This is an appropriate way to measure how various causes of death change across populations or years. Here’s an example of why death rates are age-adjusted: Start by comparing the death rate due to Alzheimer’s disease in 1999 to the rate in 2017. Alzheimer’s disease predominately affects those 65+, a population that grew from 12.5% of the population in 1999 to 15.7% in 2017. If we saw the death rate due to Alzheimer’s increasing, but didn’t have an age-adjusted rate, it would be hard to tell if Alzheimer’s was getting worse or if the population was just aging. Age-adjusting helps control for differences in population composition, allowing for comparisons across states or years. However, when discussing the death rates of specific age groups, age-adjusted rates aren’t necessary. For more details on calculating age-adjusted death rates, please see page 69 of the CDC’s 2018 National Vital Statistics Report.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wonder Tool, Detailed Mortality

For tracking deaths of despair, the ICD-10 codes described in research from the Congressional Joint Economic Committee were used. For other causes of death, the ICD-10 113 list causes of death were used. For most causes of death, the rankable cause of death was used as this is typically what the CDC uses when describing the top causes of death over time. For example, heart disease refers to "Diseases of heart (ICD-10 codes I00-I09,I11,I13,I20-I51)," and cancer refers to " Malignant neoplasms (ICD-10 codes C00-C97)"

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What are the top 5 preventable deaths?

injuryfacts.nsc.org - Top 10 Preventable Injuries - Injury Facts

The top three leading causes of preventable injury-related death – poisoning, motor vehicle, and falls – account for over 86% of all preventable deaths. No other preventable cause of death—including suffocation, drowning, fire and burns, and natural or environmental disasters—accounts for more than 5% of the total. In contrast, nonfatal emergency department visits are dominated by fall-related injuries, accounting for 33% of all preventable nonfatal injuries. Struck by or against is the only other injury event accounting for more than 10% of the total (11%). The next two leading causes of preventable injuries – other specified cause and poisoning – each account for about 9% of the injury-related emergency department visits. Motor-vehicle occupant injuries account for 8% of the visits. Other preventable injury causes accounting for 7% of emergency department visits include cut and pierce and overexertion injuries. Only three injury causes are in the top 10 for both deaths and nonfatal injuries:

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