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Shore, Rima; Shore, Barbara – Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2009
Life continues to hold considerable risk for adolescents in the United States. In 2006, the teen death rate stood at 64 deaths per 100,000 teens (13,739 teens) (KIDS COUNT Data Center, 2009). Although it has declined by 4 percent since 2000, the rate of teen death in this country remains substantially higher than in many peer nations, based…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Mortality Rate, Motor Vehicles
Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, MD. – 2000
Data from the 50 United States are listed for 1997 from Kids Count in an effort to track state-by-state the status of children in the United States and to secure better futures for all children. Data include percent low birth weight babies; infant mortality rate; child death rate; rate of teen deaths by accident, homicide, and suicide; teen birth…
Descriptors: Accidents, Adolescents, Birth Rate, Birth Weight