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QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Death Rate* Among Adults Aged ≥65 Years, by Sex — United States, 1970–2022
Weekly / July 4, 2024 / 73(26);600
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* Age-adjusted death rates are deaths per 100,000 population, adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population.
The age-adjusted death rate among adults aged ≥65 years declined from 6,717.6 per 100,000 standard population in 1970 to 4,073.8 in 2019. Death rates increased in 2020 and 2021 but then declined to 4,470.0 in 2022. The pattern was similar for males and females, although death rates for males were higher than those for females throughout the period 1970–2022.
Supplementary Table: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/156507
Source: National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data, 1970–2022. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/deaths.htm
Reported by: Betzaida Tejada-Vera, MS, fsz2@cdc.gov.
Suggested citation for this article: QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Death Rate Among Adults Aged ≥65 Years, by Sex — United States, 1970–2022. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2024;73:600. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7326a3.
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