CDC Leading Causes of Death by State (1999-2017)

Dataset · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · source URL ↗

Every US state × year × leading cause of death — 10.9k rows from CDC NCHS Underlying Cause of Death data. Each row: state, year, ICD-10 113-cause code, plain-English cause name (Heart disease, Cancer, Stroke, Suicide, Diabetes, etc), total deaths, age-adjusted death rate (per 100k). Surfaces geographic disparities: which states have higher heart disease vs cancer vs suicide rates.

Source organization
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
License / terms
Coverage
10,868 state-year-cause rows
Latest local indexed-row date
2026-05-18
API endpoint

Keywords

CDC leading causes of deathstate mortalityheart disease by statecancer rates by stateage-adjusted death rate

Provenance

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