metadata

language:
  - en
pretty_name: Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence - National
tags:
  - hhs
  - cdc
  - deaths
  - homicide
  - mortality
  - nchs
  - suicide

Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence - National

Description

This file contains death counts and death rates for drug overdose, suicide, homicide and firearm injuries at the United States national level (additional datasets exist for other levels of geography). The data is grouped by 3 different time periods including monthly, yearly, and trailing twelve months. Please see data dictionary for intents and mechanisms included in each measure.

Dataset Details

Publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Temporal Coverage: 2019-01-01/Present
Geographic Coverage: United States
Last Modified: 2025-04-04
Contact: NCIPC ([email protected])

Source

Original data can be found at: https://data.cdc.gov/d/t6u2-f84c

Usage

You can load this dataset using:

from datasets import load_dataset
 dataset = load_dataset('HHS-Official/mapping-injury-overdose-and-violence-national')

License

This dataset is licensed under https://www.usa.gov/government-works