Reports from the Vital Statistics Rapid Release Program

Vital Statistics Rapid Release Reports are based on the current flow of vital statistics data from state vital records offices and include annual reports of provisional birth data and topical analyses on vital statistics surveillance issues. These online-only reports provide additional methodological information or in-depth analyses on a specific topic or data set to help readers understand and interpret provisional mortality and natality data.

• No. 36. Fetal Mortality in the United States: Final 2021–2022 and 2022–Provisional 2023 [PDF – 618 KB] (10/15/2024)
• No. 35. Births: Provisional Data for 2023 [PDF – 387 KB] (4/25/2024)
• No. 34. Provisional Numbers and Rates of Suicide by Demographic Characteristics: United States, 2022 [PDF – 600 KB] (11/29/2023)
• No. 33. Infant Mortality in the United States: Provisional Data From the 2022 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death File [PDF – 455 KB] (11/1/2023)
• No. 32. Fetal Mortality in the United States: Final 2020–2021 and 2021–Provisional 2022 [PDF – 567 KB] (11/8/2023)
• No. 31. Provisional Life Expectancy Estimates for 2022 [PDF – 666 KB] (11/29/2023)
  • Supplemental Tables [PDF – 1, 382 KB]
• No. 30. Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Xylazine: United States, 2018–2021 [PDF – 661 KB] (6/30/2023)
• No. 29. Trends in Characteristics of Mothers With Confirmed or Presumed COVID-19 During Pregnancy: 14 States and District of Columbia, July 2020–June 2022 [PDF – 589 KB] (6/28/2023)
• No. 28. Births: Provisional Data for 2022 [PDF – 485 KB] (6/1/2023)
• No. 27. Estimates of Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Fentanyl, Methamphetamine, Cocaine, Heroin, and Oxycodone: United States, 2021 [PDF – 690 KB] (5/3/2023)
• No. 26. Fetal Mortality in the United States: Final 2019–2020 and 2020–Provisional 2021 [PDF – 1,418 KB] (1/12/2023)
• No. 25. Identification of Deaths With Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19 From Death Certificate Literal Text: United States, January 1, 2020–June 30, 2022 [PDF – 674 KB] (12/14/2022)
• No. 24. Provisional Numbers and Rates of Suicide by Month and Demographic Characteristics: United States, 2021 [PDF – 419 KB] (9/30/2022)
• No. 23. Provisional Life Expectancy Estimates for 2021 [PDF – 1.3 MB] (9/30/2022)
  • Supplemental Tables [PDF – 1 MB]
• No. 22. Changes in Births by Month: United States, 2021 [PDF – 592 KB] (7/19/2022)
• No. 21. Changes in Primary and Repeat Cesarean Delivery: United States, 2016–2021 [PDF – 592 KB] (7/6/2022)
• No. 20. Births: Provisional Data for 2021 [PDF – 454 KB] (5/24/2022)
• No. 19. Changes in Births by Month: United States, January 2019–June 2021 [PDF – 572 KB] (3/1/2022)
• No. 18. Fetal Mortality in the United States: Trends From 2014 Through 2019 and Changes Between 2018–2019 and 2019–2020 [PDF – 550 KB] (1/20/2022)
• No. 17. Maternal and Infant Characteristics and Outcomes Among Women With Confirmed or Presumed COVID-19 During Pregnancy: 14 States and the District of Columbia [PDF – 817 KB] (12/29/2021)
• No. 16. Provisional Numbers and Rates of Suicide by Month and Demographic Characteristics: United States, 2020 [PDF – 463 KB] (11/3/2021)
• No. 15. Provisional Life Expectancy Estimates for 2020 [PDF – 508 KB] (7//2121)
  • Supplemental Tables [PDF – 262 KB]
• No. 14. Changes in Births by Month: United States, 2021 [PDF – 693 KB] (7/23/2021)

• No. 13. Changes in Births to New York City Residents Occurring Outside New York City, by Race and Hispanic Origin of the Mother: 2018–2019 and 2019–2020 [PDF – 364 KB] (5/5/2021)
• No. 12. Births: Provisional Data for 2020 [PDF – 392 KB] (5/5/2021)

• No. 11. Early Provisional Estimates of Drug Overdose, Suicide and Transportation-related Deaths: Nowcasting Methods to Account for Reporting Lags [PDF – 960 KB] (2/26/2021)
  • Supplemental data visualization
• No. 10. Provisional Life Expectancy Estimates for January through June, 2020 [PDF – 732 KB] (2/18/2021)
  • Supplemental Tables [PDF – 885 KB]
• No. 9. Timeliness of Death Certificate Data by Sex, Age, and Geography [PDF – 597 KB] (6/26/2020)
• No. 8. Births: Provisional Data for 2019 [PDF – 408 KB]  (5/20/2020)
• No. 7.  Births: Provisional Data for 2018  [PDF – 602 KB] (5/15/2019)
• No. 6. Methods to Adjust Provisional Counts of Drug Overdose Deaths for Underreporting [PDF – 621 KB]   (8/20/2018)
• No. 5. Timeliness of Infant Death Data for Infant Mortality Surveillance and Quarterly Provisional Estimates [PDF – 345 KB] (6/04/2018)
• No. 4. Births: Provisional Data for 2017 [PDF – 810 KB] (5/17/2018)
• No. 3. Timeliness of Death Certificate Data for Suicides [PDF – 941 KB] (4/06/2018)
• No. 2. Births: Provisional Data for 2016 [PDF – 798 KB] (6/30/2017)
• No. 1. Timeliness of Death Certificate Data for Mortality Surveillance and Provisional Estimates [PDF – 210 KB] (12/27/2016)