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Motor Vehicle Crashes are the Leading Causes of Death For Persons 1 through 44 Years of Age

  
CDC's Age Sub-groupings
Cause of Death 
                            1-44 
     
    1-4 
   5-14 
   15-24 
    25-44
 
Motor vehicle accidents (E810-E825)	
	26,456	
 
	756	
	1,934	
	9,929	
	13,837
Malignant neoplasms, including neoplasms of lymphatic and hematopoietic tissues (140-208)	
	24,592	
 
	458	
	996	
	1,583	
	21,555
Diseases of heart (390-398, 402, 404-429)	
	17,321	
 
	195	
	313	
	1,013	
	15,800
All other accidents and adverse effects (E800-E807, E826-E949)	
	17,267	
 
	1,202	
	1,396	
	3,029	
	11,640
Suicide (E950-E959)	
	16,467	
 
	 	
	313	
	4,146	
	12,008
Homicide and legal intervention (E960-E978)	
	14,862	
 
	345	
	437	
	5,793	
	8,287
Human immunodeficiency virus infection (*042-*044)	
	11,544	
 
	 	
	102	
	276	
	11,166
Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis (571)	
	3,890	
 
	 	
	 	
	 	
	3,890
Cerebrovascular diseases (430-438)	
	3,575	
 
	50	
	 	
	167	
	3,358
Pneumonia and influenza (480-487)	
	2,463	
 
	168	
	139	
	223	
	1,933
Diabetes mellitus (250)	
	2,405	
 
	 	
	 	
	 	
	2,405
Congenital anomalies (740-759)	
	1,403	
 
	596	
	424	
	383	
	 
Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and allied conditions (490-496)	
	317	
 
	 	
	127	
	190	
	 
Benign neoplasms, carcinoma in situ, and neoplasms of uncertain behavior and of unspecified nature (210-239)	
	136	
 
	60	
	76	
	 	
	 
Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (760-779)	
	90	
 
	90	
	 	
	 	
	 
Septicemia (038)	
	66	
 
	66	
	 	
	 	
	 
All other causes (Residual)	
	35,218	
 
	1,485	
	1,787	
	4,213	
	27,733
 
All causes	
	178,072	
 
	5,471	
	8,044	
	30,945	
	133,612

The 1996 data reveals the same pattern.

Extrapolated by Daniel Convissor from data on the Center for Disease Control's web site.

National Vital Statistics Report,
Vol. 47, No. 4, October 7, 1998.
Table 17. Deaths and death rates for the 10 leading causes of death in specified age groups:
United States, preliminary 1997.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/data/47_4t17.pdf.