In 2022, those aged between 35 and 44 years had the highest number of drug overdose deaths in the United States, with 27,583 deaths. Opioids are the main driver of overdose deaths in the United States. This statistic presents the number of drug overdose deaths in the U.S. from 2013 to 2022, by age group.

Data on drug overdose death rates, by drug type and selected population characteristics. Please refer to the PDF or Excel version of this table in the HUS 2019 Data Finder (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/contents2019.htm) for critical information about measures, definitions, and changes over time.

SOURCE: NCHS, National Vital Statistics System, numerator data from annual public-use Mortality Files; denominator data from U.S. Census Bureau national population estimates; and Murphy SL, Xu JQ, Kochanek KD, Arias E, Tejada-Vera B. Deaths: Final data for 2018. National Vital Statistics Reports; vol 69 no 13. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics.2021. Available from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/nvsr.htm. For more information on the National Vital Statistics System, see the corresponding Appendix entry at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus19-appendix-508.pdf.

In 2022, the age group between 35 and 44 years accounted for 50 percent of all opioid overdose deaths in the United States. This statistic shows the distribution of deaths from opioid overdose in the U.S. in 2022, by share of age group.

In 2022, the age-adjusted drug overdose death rate for males was 45.6 per 100,000 population. Opioids are the main driver of overdose deaths in the United States. This statistic presents the age-adjusted drug overdose death rate in the U.S. from 1999 to 2022, by gender, per 100,000 population.

In 2023, there were a total of 5,975 deaths in Canada due to opioid overdose, with around 30 percent of deaths occurring among those aged 30 to 39 years. This statistic shows the distribution of deaths from opioid overdose in Canada from 2016 to 2023, by age.

This indicator includes unintentional overdoses, homicides, and suicides from drug overdose. Death rate has been age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population. ICD-10 codes used to identify drug overdose related deaths are X40-X44, X60-X64, X85, and Y10-Y14.Drug overdose deaths have increased dramatically in the US over the past two decades. The first wave of deaths in the 1990s largely involved prescription opioids and was a consequence of increased prescribing of these drugs by medical providers. In the second wave that began in 2010, there was a rapid increase in the number of deaths involving heroin and, in the current wave that started in 2013, there has been a rise in the number of overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids, particularly illicitly manufactured fentanyl, which can be found in combination with heroin, counterfeit pills, cocaine, and other drugs. In Los Angeles County in recent years, the vast majority of all drug overdose deaths have involved fentanyl. Important inequities have been noted by sociodemographic characteristics, with low-income and Black individuals found to have the highest overdose death rates. Cities and communities can take an active role in preventing overdose deaths by promoting primary prevention and supporting evidence-based harm reduction and treatment strategies.For more information about the Community Health Profiles Data Initiative, please see the initiative homepage.

Data on drug overdose death rates in the United States, by age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, and drug type. Data are from Health, United States. SOURCE: National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality File. Search, visualize, and download these and other estimates from over 120 health topics with the NCHS Data Query System (DQS), available from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/dataquery/index.htm.

Age adjusted rate of deaths from heroin overdoses among residents of Santa Clara County by total population and sex; trends if available. Source: California Department of Public Health. California Opioid Overdose Surveillance Dashboard. California Department of Public Health. https://discovery.cdph.ca.gov/CDIC/ODdash/METADATA:Notes (String): Lists table title, note and sourceYear (Numeric): Year of dataRate per 100,000 people (Numeric): Age adjusted rate of deaths from heroin overdoses among residents of Santa Clara County (rate per 100,000 people)

In 2022, around 28 percent of opioid overdose deaths in Canada involved people aged 30 to 39 years. This statistic shows the distribution of accidental apparent deaths from opioid overdose in Canada in 2022, by age.

This page contains overall overdose death data trends by state

In 2022, the age-adjusted drug overdose death rate for Hispanics was 22.7 per 100,000 population. Opioids are the main driver of overdose deaths in the United States. This statistic presents the age-adjusted drug overdose death rate in the U.S. from 2013 to 2022, by race/ethnicity, per 100,000 population.

This dataset contains mortality statistics for opioid drugs poisoning in the US at state level starting from 2013 to 2016. The indicators used crude and age-adjusted mortality. At the same time it contains data about the number of deaths and the increase of the number, along with statistical significance (for a probability level of 95%) of increase between the years.

Injury from poisoning exists under several Injury Intents: unintentional (accidental), intentional self-harm, assault, undetermined and adverse effect and underdosing. Only injuries in the first four categories are reported here combined. The data show rates per 100,000 people in order to standardize between areas with different population levels. Except for age specific rates, we use age-adjusted rates because they take into account where one age group dominates a population and thus are more representative. We use diagnosis by hospital records for non-fatal injury and cause of death from death certificates for fatal injury information.

This statistic shows the annual death rate for prescription opioid overdose deaths in the United States in 2015 and 2016, by age. According to the data, in 2016 those aged between 45 and 54 years had the highest prescription opioid-related overdose death rate at 10.1 per 100,000 population.

Source: 48-Hour Opioid Overdose Reporting System, Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH)Note: Percentages may not total to 100% due to rounding. Percentages are displayed as decimals. Due to RIDOH's Small Numbers Reporting Policy, values less than 5 (and their corresponding percentages) are censored. Data from 2016 does not include January.

In 2022, around 6,606 people aged 15 to 24 years died from a drug overdose. Opioids, primarily prescription pain relievers and heroin, are the main driver of overdose deaths. This statistic presents the number of drug overdose deaths among those aged 15 to 24 years in the U.S. from 1999 to 2022.

Accidental Drug Related Deaths by Drug Type reports totals and subtotals of deaths attributable to accidental drug overdoses by place of death as reported by the Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Deaths are grouped by age, race, ethnicity, and gender and by the types of drugs detected post-death.

Static Data Set Opiate overdoses by age group and gender for fiscal year 2018

Static Data Set Opiate overdoses by age group and gender for fiscal year 2018