SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF MISSISSIPPI , 1995
--------NUMBER------- ---MORTALITY RATE*--
LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH NON- NON-
LISTED IN DESCENDING ORDER TOTAL WHITE WHITE TOTAL WHITE WHITE
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TOTAL OF ALL CAUSES 26,910 17,729 9,181 10.0 10.5 9.2
HEART DISEASES 9,567 6,500 3,067 355.2 384.0 306.6
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 5,725 3,894 1,831 212.6 230.0 183.0
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 1,856 1,174 682 68.9 69.4 68.2
ACCIDENTS 1,605 997 608 59.6 58.9 60.8
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 1,019 820 199 37.8 48.4 19.9
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 946 690 256 35.1 40.8 25.6
DIABETES MELLITUS 485 273 212 18.0 16.1 21.2
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 429 128 301 15.9 7.6 30.1
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 388 210 178 14.4 12.4 17.8
SUICIDE 318 258 60 11.8 15.2 6.0
HIV INFECTION 255 103 152 9.5 6.1 15.2
HYPERTENSION 238 118 120 8.8 7.0 12.0
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 231 158 73 8.6 9.3 7.3
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 162 45 117 3.9 2.1 5.9
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 152 81 71 5.6 4.8 7.1
ATHEROSCLEROSIS 110 87 23 4.1 5.1 2.3
TUBERCULOSIS 17 7 10 0.6 0.4 1.0
INFECTIONS OF KIDNEY 14 12 2 0.5 0.7 0.2
MATERNAL CAUSES 5 0 5 12.1 0.0 25.3
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 274 134 140 10.2 7.9 14.0
ALL OTHER 3,114 2,040 1,074 115.6 120.5 107.4
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* TOTAL DEATHS PER 1,000 POPULATION. DEATHS FROM SPECIFIC CAUSES ARE PER
100,000 POPULATION, EXCEPT DEATHS FROM MATERNAL CAUSES ARE PER 100,000
LIVE BIRTHS AND DEATHS FROM CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD ARE PER
1,000 LIVE BIRTHS. POPULATION FIGURES ARE 1995 PROJECTIONS.
# LESS THAN 0.06.
------- TOTAL ------ ------ MALE ------- ----- FEMALE ------
NON- NON- NON-
AGE TOTAL WHITE WHITE TOTAL WHITE WHITE TOTAL WHITE WHITE
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TOTAL 26,910 17,729 9,181 14,076 9,180 4,896 12,834 8,549 4,285
UNDER 1 435 149 286 249 89 160 186 60 126
(NEONATAL) 254 88 166 149 54 95 105 34 71
(POSTNEONATAL) 181 61 120 100 35 65 81 26 55
1-4 114 44 70 65 27 38 49 17 32
5-9 47 27 20 28 14 14 19 13 6
10-14 85 36 49 57 23 34 28 13 15
15-24 575 290 285 418 205 213 157 85 72
25-34 806 386 420 553 267 286 253 119 134
35-44 1,202 593 609 821 410 411 381 183 198
45-54 1,861 1,045 816 1,176 659 517 685 386 299
55-64 3,187 2,007 1,180 1,929 1,277 652 1,258 730 528
65-74 5,594 3,889 1,705 3,256 2,352 904 2,338 1,537 801
75-84 7,140 5,075 2,065 3,515 2,504 1,011 3,625 2,571 1,054
85 AND OVER 5,863 4,188 1,675 2,008 1,353 655 3,855 2,835 1,020
UNKNOWN 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
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MORTALITY RATES** 1995 POPULATION
INFANT 10.5 6.9 14.5 TOTAL 2,693,053
NEONATAL 6.1 4.1 8.4 WHITE 1,692,681
POSTNEONATAL 4.4 2.8 6.1 NONWHITE 1,000,372
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** DEATHS PER 1,000 LIVE BIRTHS.