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U.S. Overdose Mortality Tracker

Provisional drug overdose death counts for the United States, refreshed from the CDC NCHS Vital Statistics Rapid Release. Twelve-month rolling totals, drug-class composition, state-level rankings, and the long-running trend, presented without commentary so the numbers can stand on their own.

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12-month rolling total

12 months ending

Drug overdose deaths, United States

000,000

Loading the most recent published value from the CDC NCHS Vital Statistics Rapid Release.

36-month trend

Rolling 12-month totals, month over month.

U.S. drug overdose deaths over the last 36 months

Composition by drug class

Latest 12-month window. ICD-10 cause-of-death categories, as recorded on death certificates.

A single death often involves more than one substance. CDC categories are not mutually exclusive and the totals will not sum to the headline figure.

State leaderboard

Latest 12-month window, top ten states.

By absolute total

StateDeathsYoY

By rate per 100,000 residents

StatePer 100kYoY

Per-capita rates use 2024 U.S. Census Bureau population estimates. New York City is reported separately by CDC and is folded into New York for the per-capita view only.

Five-year comparison

12-month-ending totals at the close of each calendar year. The current year shows the latest available trailing-12 reading.

Methodology and source

Figures on this page are pulled from the CDC National Center for Health Statistics Vital Statistics Rapid Release (VSRR) Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts dataset. The dataset is updated monthly and reports rolling 12-month totals indexed to the most recent month with sufficient reporting.

  • All figures are provisional. Late-arriving death certificates and pending toxicology cases mean values for the most recent months are revised upward as the data matures.
  • Reporting lag is roughly three months. The latest published month typically reflects deaths occurring through that month, but with reporting still in progress.
  • "Predicted (CDC adjusted)" is CDC's own model-based estimate that compensates for incomplete reporting. It represents an upper bound on the likely revised count.
  • Drug-class categories are defined by ICD-10 cause-of-death codes. A single death certificate often lists more than one substance, so the class subtotals are overlapping and do not sum to the headline figure.

Source: CDC NCHS VSRR Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts (dataset ID xkb8-kh2a). Data fetched live via Socrata and cached for 24 hours.