SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF MISSISSIPPI , 1997
--------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 27,380 18,034 9,346 10.2 10.6 9.3
HEART DISEASES 9,674 6,468 3,206 359.2 382.1 320.5
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 5,815 3,920 1,895 215.9 231.6 189.4
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 1,848 1,194 654 68.6 70.5 65.4
ACCIDENTS 1,580 957 623 58.7 56.5 62.3
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 1,099 916 183 40.8 54.1 18.3
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 1,030 746 284 38.2 44.1 28.4
DIABETES MELLITUS 564 294 270 20.9 17.4 27.0
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 417 243 174 15.5 14.4 17.4
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 388 123 265 14.4 7.3 26.5
SUICIDE 338 278 60 12.6 16.4 6.0
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 255 192 63 9.5 11.3 6.3
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 183 56 127 4.4 2.5 6.5
HYPERTENSION 180 93 87 6.7 5.5 8.7
INFECTION 155 46 109 5.8 2.7 10.9
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 145 83 62 5.4 4.9 6.2
ATHEROSCLEROSIS 102 80 22 3.8 4.7 2.2
INFECTIONS OF KIDNEY 22 15 7 0.8 0.9 0.7
TUBERCULOSIS 13 4 9 0.5 0.2 0.9
MATERNAL CAUSES 11 4 7 26.5 18.2 35.9
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 287 154 133 10.6 9.1 13.3
ALL OTHER 3,274 2,168 1,106 121.6 128.1 110.6
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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 27,380 18,034 9,346 13,980 9,115 4,865 13,400 8,919 4,481
UNDER 1 440 156 284 249 75 174 191 81 110
(NEONATAL) 269 96 173 156 45 111 113 51 62
(POSTNEONATAL) 171 60 111 93 30 63 78 30 48
1-4 88 32 56 44 20 24 44 12 32
5-9 46 19 27 24 11 13 22 8 14
10-14 74 38 36 49 25 24 25 13 12
15-24 573 262 311 423 193 230 150 69 81
25-34 674 307 367 440 205 235 234 102 132
35-44 1,249 603 646 802 395 407 447 208 239
45-54 1,964 1,046 918 1,245 680 565 719 366 353
55-64 3,179 1,988 1,191 1,903 1,231 672 1,276 757 519
65-74 5,490 3,830 1,660 3,131 2,270 861 2,359 1,560 799
75-84 7,267 5,248 2,019 3,543 2,581 962 3,724 2,667 1,057
85 AND OVER 6,330 4,502 1,828 2,121 1,426 695 4,209 3,076 1,133
UNKNOWN 6 3 3 6 3 3 0 0 0
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MORTALITY RATES** 1995 POPULATION
INFANT 10.6 7.1 14.6 TOTAL 2,693,053
NEONATAL 6.5 4.4 8.9 WHITE 1,692,681
POSTNEONATAL 4.1 2.7 5.7 NONWHITE 1,000,372
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** DEATHS PER 1,000 LIVE BIRTHS.