SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF MISSISSIPPI, 1996
--------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 26,566 17,488 9,078 9.9 10.3 9.1
HEART DISEASES 9,499 6,446 3,053 352.7 380.8 305.2
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 5,732 3,864 1,868 212.8 228.3 186.7
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 1,691 1,089 602 62.8 64.3 60.2
ACCIDENTS 1,512 907 605 56.1 53.6 60.5
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 1,003 823 180 37.2 48.6 18.0
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 884 637 247 32.8 37.6 24.7
DIABETES MELLITUS 533 268 265 19.8 15.8 26.5
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 377 131 246 14.0 7.7 24.6
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 351 176 175 13.0 10.4 17.5
SUICIDE 310 263 47 11.5 15.5 4.7
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 257 187 70 9.5 11.0 7.0
HIV INFECTION 229 73 156 8.5 4.3 15.6
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 201 60 141 4.9 2.8 7.2
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 160 78 82 5.9 4.6 8.2
HYPERTENSION 143 75 68 5.3 4.4 6.8
ATHEROSCLEROSIS 107 84 23 4.0 5.0 2.3
TUBERCULOSIS 25 10 15 0.9 0.6 1.5
INFECTIONS OF KIDNEY 16 13 3 0.6 0.8 0.3
MATERNAL CAUSES 1 0 1 2.4 0.0 5.1
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 281 161 120 10.4 9.5 12.0
ALL OTHER 3,254 2,143 1,111 120.8 126.6 111.0
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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 26,566 17,488 9,078 13,667 8,936 4,731 12,899 8,552 4,347
UNDER 1 451 169 282 247 92 155 204 77 127
(NEONATAL) 294 103 191 168 57 111 126 46 80
(POSTNEONATAL) 157 66 91 79 35 44 78 31 47
1-4 87 32 55 57 21 36 30 11 19
5-9 67 27 40 41 17 24 26 10 16
10-14 82 40 42 50 25 25 32 15 17
15-24 599 275 324 437 192 245 162 83 79
25-34 724 342 382 493 230 263 231 112 119
35-44 1,201 594 607 786 417 369 415 177 238
45-54 1,892 1,043 849 1,178 665 513 714 378 336
55-64 3,082 1,940 1,142 1,914 1,248 666 1,168 692 476
65-74 5,479 3,803 1,676 3,151 2,293 858 2,328 1,510 818
75-84 7,006 5,009 1,997 3,403 2,451 952 3,603 2,558 1,045
85 AND OVER 5,890 4,212 1,678 1,905 1,283 622 3,985 2,929 1,056
UNKNOWN 6 2 4 5 2 3 1 0 1
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MORTALITY RATES** 1995 POPULATION
INFANT 11.0 7.9 14.4 TOTAL 2,693,053
NEONATAL 7.2 4.8 9.8 WHITE 1,692,681
POSTNEONATAL 3.8 3.1 4.6 NONWHITE 1,000,372
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** DEATHS PER 1,000 LIVE BIRTHS.