(HSWWDTDS)
DISTRICT: MISSISSIPPI
SELECTED DEATH STATISTICS, RESIDENTS OF DISTRICT MISSISSIPPI , 1998
--------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 27,737 18,343 9,394 10.1 10.7 9.1
HEART DISEASES 9,501 6,419 3,082 345.2 373.3 298.5
MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS 5,944 4,017 1,927 216.0 233.6 186.6
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES 1,804 1,131 673 65.6 65.8 65.2
ACCIDENTS 1,712 1,060 652 62.2 61.6 63.1
EMPHYSEMA AND OTHER COPD 1,128 939 189 41.0 54.6 18.3
PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA 1,065 775 290 38.7 45.1 28.1
DIABETES MELLITUS 628 333 295 22.8 19.4 28.6
NEPHRITIS, NEPH SYNDROME, NEPHROSIS 402 237 165 14.6 13.8 16.0
HOMICIDE AND LEGAL INTERVENTION 358 118 240 13.0 6.9 23.2
SUICIDE 330 284 46 12.0 16.5 4.4
CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND CIRRHOSIS 231 169 62 8.4 9.8 6.0
HYPERTENSION 213 117 96 7.7 6.8 9.3
CONDITIONS ORIG IN PERINATAL PERIOD 194 48 146 4.5 2.1 7.3
CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 139 73 66 5.0 4.2 6.4
HIV INFECTION 139 28 111 5.0 1.6 10.7
ATHEROSCLEROSIS 87 60 27 3.2 3.5 2.6
TUBERCULOSIS 15 6 9 0.5 0.3 0.9
INFECTIONS OF KIDNEY 14 11 3 0.5 0.6 0.3
MATERNAL CAUSES 4 2 2 9.3 8.7 10.0
--- NOT INCLUDED IN RANKING ---
SYMPTOMS, SIGNS, ILL-DEFINED 271 157 114 9.8 9.1 11.0
ALL OTHER 3,558 2,359 1,199 129.3 137.2 116.1
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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 1998 ESTIMATES.
# 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 27,737 18,343 9,394 14,123 9,298 4,825 13,614 9,045 4,569
UNDER 1 436 146 290 245 78 167 191 68 123
(NEONATAL) 265 76 189 157 43 114 108 33 75
(POSTNEONATAL) 171 70 101 88 35 53 83 35 48
1-4 92 34 58 44 15 29 48 19 29
5-9 70 30 40 42 21 21 28 9 19
10-14 81 41 40 58 29 29 23 12 11
15-24 545 282 263 393 203 190 152 79 73
25-34 622 302 320 449 215 234 173 87 86
35-44 1,283 620 663 804 412 392 479 208 271
45-54 1,994 1,118 876 1,248 728 520 746 390 356
55-64 3,233 2,029 1,204 1,984 1,280 704 1,249 749 500
65-74 5,567 3,862 1,705 3,196 2,316 880 2,371 1,546 825
75-84 7,301 5,267 2,034 3,482 2,545 937 3,819 2,722 1,097
85 AND OVER 6,510 4,610 1,900 2,177 1,456 721 4,333 3,154 1,179
UNKNOWN 3 2 1 1 0 1 2 2 0
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MORTALITY RATES** 1998 POPULATION
INFANT 10.2 6.4 14.5 TOTAL 2,752,092
NEONATAL 6.2 3.3 9.5 WHITE 1,719,483
POSTNEONATAL 4.0 3.0 5.0 NONWHITE 1,032,609
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** DEATHS PER 1,000 LIVE BIRTHS.