Version 1. This includes only major theorized contributors to crime, such as a large percentage of young men deploying to war (so not all wars are included). I recognize this is incomplete. Please include suggested additions or changes (that are thought to have a major impact) on the talk page. I will not be able to check this often, but I will update this over time.

Notes:

- Data prior to 1933 are corrected per Eckberg 1995 (reference below). As stated in https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/1975/compendia/hist_stats_colonial-1970/hist_stats_colonial-1970p1-chH.pdf: "Data for the entire United States were not available until 1933. For the years prior to 1933 this series includes deaths only for the death registration States of the respective years. For 1900, 10 states and the District of Columbia are included, comprising 26 percent of the population of the United States. As States were added, the registration area gradually grew to include approximately 50 percent of the United states population in 1910, about 80 percent in 1920, and the entire United States in 1933.”

- CDC data were retroactively recalculated using new 2000 age-adjustment guidelines for 1950-1998 data. As a result, this data may not match the original sources. Please see references below.

- After the Bureau of Labor Statistics introduced the Consumer Price Index, inflation could be calculated starting in 1914.

References: Eckberg, Douglas Lee. “Estimates of Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Homicide Rates: An Econometric Forecasting Approach.” Demography, vol. 32, no. 1, 1995, pp. 1–16. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2061893. Accessed 5 June 2024.

Lindner FE, Grove RD. Vital statistics rates in the United States, 1900-1940 [PDF – 78 MB]. U.S. Department of Commerce. Washington. Bureau of the Census. 1943. Accessed from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/vsrates1900_40.pdf via https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/mortality/hist290a.htm.

Grove, Robert D and Hetzel, Alice M. “Vital Statistics in the United States, 1940-1960.” 887 pp. National Center for Health Statistics (within CDC). 1968. From https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/vsrates1940_60.pdf via https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/vsus.htm.

National Center for Health Statistics, CDC. “Unpublished Tables: 1950-59: HIST293_5059; 1960-67: HIST293_6067 (2010); 1968-78: HIST293_6878 (2000); 1979-98 for 72 cause list: HIST293_7998_72 (2002). Accessed via https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/mortality/hist293.htm. Note: “Age-adjusted death rates were calculated using the year 2000 standard using the following source documents: age-specific death rates from unpublished worktables from CDC/National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality data; data from the Special Reports (1956) publication; and electronic data tapes.”

National Center for Health Statistics, CDC. “GMWK293R: Age-Adjusted Death Rates for 113 Selected Causes, United States, 1999-2007.” 2010. From https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/MortFinal2007_WorkTable293.pdf via https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/mortality/gmwk293r.htm. Note: There is a discrepancy in homicide rate for 2003 between Table SlctMort (6.1) and this data (6.0).

National Center for Health Statistics, CDC. “Table SlctMort: Age-adjusted death rates for selected causes of death, by sex, race, and Hispanic origin: United States, selected years 1950–2019.” Edition 2020-2021. From https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2020-2021/SlctMort.pdf via https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/data-finder.htm?&subject=Homicide. Note: Data before 2000 on this version is not used because of the revised age-adjusted death rates from 2000. There is a discrepancy in homicide rate for 2003 between this data (6.1) and GMWK293R (6.0).

CDC, National Center for Health Statistics. “National Vital Statistics System, Mortality 2018-2022” on CDC WONDER Online Database, released in 2023. Data are from the Multiple Cause of Death Files, 2018-2022, as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Accessed at http://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10-expanded.html on Jun 5, 2024.

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