US death rate dropped back to pre-Covid levels in 2024, CDC report says

COVID-19 no longer among the top 10 causes of death in the U.S.

For the first time since the pandemic began, COVID-19 dropped out of the top 10 causes of death in 2024, U.S. National Center for Health Statistics data shows.

COVID-19 Falls From Top 10 U.S. Causes of Death for First Time Since 2020

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COVID-19 Is No Longer a Top 10 Cause of Death, CDC Report Says

COVID-19 is no longer a top 10 cause of death in the United States, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The overall death rate dropped to 722 per 100,000 in 2024 from 750.5 per 100,000 people in 2023, the CDC said. “Suicide replaced COVID-19 as the 10th leading underlying cause of death,” the agency said in its report. According to data released by the CDC, the COVID-19 death rate appear…

CDC report shows US death rate returns to prepandemic levels

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a new report indicating that the death rate in the United States last year returned to prepandemic levels. The report highlights that there were nearly 3.1 million deaths in 2024,…

COVID No Longer a Top 10 Cause of Death in the U.S.

(MedPage Today) -- For the first time since the pandemic began, COVID-19 is no longer a top 10 cause of death in the U.S., CDC researchers reported. In 2024 provisional data, suicide replaced COVID as the 10th leading underlying cause of death...

U.S. death rate drops to lowest level since 2020 with COVID no longer a leading cause

The death rate in the United States decline by 3.8% in 2024, falling to the lowest level since 2020, according to a federal report​.