Data is from these saved tables from CDC Wonder at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
- 1968-1978 data: Saved Request: Compressed Mortality, 1968-1978, D72F578. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Compressed Mortality File 1968-1978. CDC WONDER Online Database, compiled from Compressed Mortality File CMF 1968-1988, Series 20, No. 2A, 2000. Accessed at http://wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd8.html on Jan 23, 2020 7:30:53 PM.
- 1979-1998 data: Saved Request: Compressed Mortality, 1979-1998, D72F579. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Compressed Mortality File 1979-1998. CDC WONDER On-line Database, compiled from Compressed Mortality File CMF 1968-1988, Series 20, No. 2A, 2000 and CMF 1989-1998, Series 20, No. 2E, 2003. Accessed at http://wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd9.html on Jan 23, 2020 7:28:57 PM.
- 1999-2017 data: Saved Request: Multiple Cause of Death, 1999-2017, D72F580. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Multiple Cause of Death 1999-2017 on CDC WONDER Online Database, released December, 2018. Data are from the Multiple Cause of Death Files, 1999-2017, as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Accessed at http://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10.html on Jan 23, 2020 6:24:53 PM.
2018 overdose death total is provisional and is from here:
- Scroll down the page and click on the dropdown data table called "Data Table for Figure 1a. 12 Month-ending Provisional Counts of Drug Overdose Deaths". The 2018 number is the "predicted value" for the 12 month period ending Jan 2019. That number changes as more info comes in.
- U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: United States. Has July 1, 2018 resident population.
- 2018 crude death rate per 100,000 population is calculated from the above two 2018 numbers.
| Year | Deaths | Population (July 1 residents) |
Crude death rate per 100,000 |
Age adjusted death rate per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 5,033 | 199,533,564 | 2.5 | 2.8 |
| 1969 | 6,006 | 201,568,206 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 7,101 | 203,458,035 | 3.5 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 6,771 | 206,782,970 | 3.3 | 3.5 |
| 1972 | 6,622 | 209,237,411 | 3.2 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 6,413 | 211,361,965 | 3.0 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 6,449 | 213,436,958 | 3.0 | 3.2 |
| 1975 | 7,145 | 215,457,198 | 3.3 | 3.4 |
| 1976 | 6,765 | 217,615,788 | 3.1 | 3.2 |
| 1977 | 6,130 | 219,808,632 | 2.8 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 5,506 | 222,102,279 | 2.5 | 2.6 |
| 1979 | 2,544 | 224,635,398 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| 1980 | 2,492 | 226,624,371 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| 1981 | 2,668 | 229,487,512 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| 1982 | 2,862 | 231,701,425 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| 1983 | 2,866 | 233,781,743 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| 1984 | 3,266 | 235,922,142 | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| 1985 | 3,612 | 238,005,715 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| 1986 | 4,187 | 240,189,882 | 1.7 | 1.7 |
| 1987 | 3,907 | 242,395,034 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| 1988 | 4,865 | 244,651,961 | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| 1989 | 5,035 | 247,001,762 | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| 1990 | 4,506 | 248,922,111 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| 1991 | 5,215 | 253,088,068 | 2.1 | 2.0 |
| 1992 | 5,951 | 256,606,463 | 2.3 | 2.3 |
| 1993 | 7,382 | 260,024,637 | 2.8 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 7,828 | 263,241,475 | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| 1995 | 8,000 | 266,386,596 | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| 1996 | 8,431 | 269,540,779 | 3.1 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 9,099 | 272,776,678 | 3.3 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 9,838 | 276,032,848 | 3.6 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 16,849 | 279,040,168 | 6.0 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 17,415 | 281,421,906 | 6.2 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 19,394 | 284,968,955 | 6.8 | 6.8 |
| 2002 | 23,518 | 287,625,193 | 8.2 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 25,785 | 290,107,933 | 8.9 | 8.9 |
| 2004 | 27,424 | 292,805,298 | 9.4 | 9.4 |
| 2005 | 29,813 | 295,516,599 | 10.1 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 34,425 | 298,379,912 | 11.5 | 11.5 |
| 2007 | 36,010 | 301,231,207 | 12.0 | 11.9 |
| 2008 | 36,450 | 304,093,966 | 12.0 | 11.9 |
| 2009 | 37,004 | 306,771,529 | 12.1 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 38,329 | 308,745,538 | 12.4 | 12.3 |
| 2011 | 41,340 | 311,591,917 | 13.3 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 41,502 | 313,914,040 | 13.2 | 13.1 |
| 2013 | 43,982 | 316,128,839 | 13.9 | 13.8 |
| 2014 | 47,055 | 318,857,056 | 14.8 | 14.7 |
| 2015 | 52,404 | 321,418,820 | 16.3 | 16.3 |
| 2016 | 63,632 | 323,127,513 | 19.7 | 19.8 |
| 2017 | 70,237 | 325,719,178 | 21.6 | 21.7 |
| 2018 | 68,814 | 327,167,434 | 21.0 | |
| Total | 945,877 |