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Bar Chart on Mortality Among 15-24 Year Olds: 1990 
Deaths per 100,000 Population

 
 

Table on Mortality Among 15-24 Year Olds: 1990
Deaths per 100,000 Population
Disease All White Female White Male Other Female Other Male
All 99.2 45.9 131.3 61.7 217.4
Injury 43.9 22.3 68.7 14.9 53.7
Homicide 19.9 4.0 15.4 15.5 109.1
Suicide 13.2 4.2 23.2 2.7 16.8
Cancer 4.9 4.0 5.7 4.3 5.6
Heart Disease 2.7 1.5 2.8 3.9 5.8
AIDS 1.4 0.3 1.8 1.1 5.6

The 1990 Bar Chart on 15-24 Year Olds, i.e. the Gen Xers, shows that the most common causes are injury, homicide, & suicide, all which are 'youthful causes of death' which will decline as 'senior causes of death' such as disease come into play


Reference: U.S. National Center for Health Statistics. The 1990 Edition of Vital Statistics of the United States.Volume II, Mortality, Part A. Table 1-10 Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.

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