By age, United States
Deaths per 100,000 people in each age group. Pick ages under Age in the filters. CDC's open data has age by drug for the whole country only; age on the map needs CDC WONDER exports (coming).
Sources and notes
- States, by drug, 2015–now: CDC National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), VSRR Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts. Deaths in the 12 months ending December of each year; the latest year is the 12 months ending . Rates use Census population estimates.
- Counties, all drugs, 2003–2021: NCHS, Drug Poisoning Mortality by County. Model-based estimates, smoothed so small counties don't swing year to year.
- Counties, all drugs, 2022–now: NCHS, VSRR Provisional County-Level Drug Overdose Death Counts, 12 months ending December (latest: ). CDC does not publish counts of 1–9; those counties are striped.
- Age: NCHS, Drug overdose death rates by drug type, sex, age, race, and Hispanic origin (1999–2017) and the 2018–2024 update.
- Population: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, county totals 2010–2025.
- Map: us-atlas (Census cartographic boundaries).
Read with care
- Recent numbers are provisional and rise a little as death investigations close.
- A death can involve more than one drug, so the drug rows don't add up to "All drugs".
- County numbers change method in 2022 (model estimates before, reported counts after). A jump at that line can be the method, not the county.
- Rates here are crude (deaths ÷ people), not age-adjusted, so they can differ slightly from CDC's headline rates.
- New York State is the sum of CDC's "New York (excl. NYC)" and "New York City" rows. Connecticut switched from counties to planning regions in 2022, so its counties are blank from 2022.
- Some states don't report enough drug detail for every drug in every year; those show as "No data".