In 2023, there were around 5,529 choking deaths in the United States. Death from choking is more common among the elderly with food most often responsible for such incidents. The use of abdominal thrusts, or the Heimlich Maneuver, is suggested to dislodge objects and prevent suffocation. Death from choking In the United States, the odds of one dying from choking on food is around 1 in 2,461. These odds are greater than the odds of dying from an accidental gun discharge or as a passenger on a plane. In 2023, there were around 1.7 deaths from choking per 100,000 population. Choking among children Choking is also hazardous among young children. Young children are not only in danger of choking on food, but also of choking on small objects, such as toys with small parts. Choking, strangulation, or suffocation are some of the leading reasons for the recall of children’s products in the United States. The other most common reasons for such recalls include the danger of bodily harm and risk of flammability, burn or electric shock.

This table contains data on residents of the Netherlands who died as a result of an accident (mainly transport accident, accidental fall, accidental drowning and accidental poisoning) in the year indicated. The place of the accident does not have to be located in the Netherlands. The accident date may fall in the previous year. The data are broken down by gender and age of the victim. The ICD-10 causes of death are V01-W77, W80-X59, Y10-Y19, Y34 and Y85-Y86.

In the statistical year 2013, CBS switched to the use of international software for automatic encoding of causes of death. This makes the figures more reproducible and comparable internationally. However, there are some significant shifts in the causes of death. However, external causes of death have been processed manually as before.

The people died during the MH17 disaster in 2014 were not classified as an accident with an airplane, but as an act of war or insurrection (ICD-10 code Y36). Therefore, these persons cannot be found in this accident table.

Data available from 1996 to 2017

Status of the figures: All figures are final.

Changes as of 20 November 2019: None, this table has been discontinued. All the information from the table can also be found in table 'Deceased; cause of death (extended list), age, gender“and a large part also in table”Deceased; major causes of death (short list), age, gender”. Because the display is slightly different on two points, this leads to questions and confusion every year. Therefore, it was decided to stop this table. The points in this discontinued table are different from those in the ‘short list table’: — the short list also contains accidental poisoning, but not determined by the codes; — the short list does include the code on choking in food when suffocating, while it is not included in the discontinued table. Section 3 contains a list of links in which the replacement information can be found for each part of the table.

When are new figures coming? No longer applicable