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US death rate dropped back to pre-Covid levels in 2024, CDC report says
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN
Updated:
12:01 AM EDT, Wed September 10, 2025
Source: CNN
The death rate in the United States returned to pre-pandemic levels in
2024 as Covid-19 fell out of the top 10 leading causes of death,
according to a published Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
Covid-19 quickly rose to the third leading cause of death in the US in
the first two years of the pandemic, pushing the age-adjusted death
rate up to a peak of about 880 deaths for every 100,000 people in 2021.
The overall US death rate has fallen about 18% since then, and last
year’s 4% drop brought the US death rate down to the lowest it’s
been since 2019.
There were 722 deaths for every 100,000 people in the US in 2024 –
nearly 3.1 million deaths overall – according to the provisional,
age-adjusted data from the CDC. Final mortality data may change, but
the latest data are based on 99.9% of all 2024 death records received
and processed by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics as
of June 1, 2025.
Heart disease and cancer remained the leading causes of death,
accounting for more than 40% of all deaths.
And despite an , drug overdoses and other unintentional injuries were
the third leading cause of death in the US for the third year in a row.
Covid-19 was the fourth leading cause of death in 2022 and the tenth in
2023, according to CDC data. There were still deaths in the US last
year, but suicide moved up to the tenth leading cause of death – with
nearly 49,000 lives lost in 2024.
Suicide mortality reached a in the US 2022 and has decreased only
slightly in the years since. Millions of people have called, texted, or
sent chats to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline since mid-2022; about a
tenth of those individuals who reached were routed to a , but the Trump
administration ended that service in July.
Death rates decreased for most age groups in 2024, the new CDC report
shows, but held steady for children ages 5 to 14 and for infants.
Infant mortality had been trending down in the US for decades before ,
and the new CDC report shows that the infant mortality rate has still
not recovered. Nearly 20,000 babies died before they turned 1 in 2024
– about 5.5 deaths for every 1,000 infants. In August, the
Mississippi health department declared a over rising infant mortality
rates in the state.
Age-adjusted death rates decreased for all race and ethnicity groups in
2024 but vast disparities remain. Rates were highest among the Black
population, with more 924 deaths for every 100,000 Black people in the
US – 28% higher than the overall rate.
Deaths decreased among both men and women in the US in 2024, but the
rate was significantly lower among women than it was for men.
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