This metric reflects the rate of deaths in a state, age-adjusted and scaled per 100,000 population using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The mortality rate metric is one ...

Life expectancy is the average number of years that a person would live if he or she experienced the age-specific death rates that occurred at a particular point in time. As death rates decline ...

Infant mortality in the United States decreased by 24.2% between 1999 and 2022. Researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University and Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU discovered this improvement ...

However, mortality rates from Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) rose significantly -- by 11.8% -- from 2020 to 2022. Infant mortality in the United States decreased by 24.2% between 1999 and 2022.