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You'd be surprised. This is in Canada, not sure about the US. Deaths per 100,000 people (drowning), Canada, 2006-2010: 0-4: 1.1 5-12: 0.6 13-17: 0.9 18-24
by astalwick 11y ago
You'd be surprised. This is in Canada, not sure about the US.
Deaths per 100,000 people (drowning), Canada, 2006-2010:
0-4: 1.1
5-12: 0.6
13-17: 0.9
18-24: 2.2
24-34: 1.6
34-49: 1.4
50-64: 1.7
65+: 1.6
I don't have the source handy, but I'll try to dig it up.
Edit: Source - http://www.lifesavingsociety.com/media/157475/2013-cdndrowningreport.pdf http://www.lifesavingsociety.com/media/157475/2013-cdndrowni...
- maxerickson 11y agoThe gadget here puts the overall US rate at 1.07 in 2013 http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_us.html http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_us.html I did 18-24, it says 1.18. 24-34, 0.98. 5-12, 0.49. I wonder what factors into the differences. I'm sure things like number of guarded facilities, number of swimmers and amount of swim classes are important, it's the specific differences that would be interesting.
- Rebelgecko 11y agoIf you go year by year it looks like the rate goes up from 17-20, then after 21 starts to decrease. Somewhere else on the CDC's website they say that "alcohol use is involved in up to 70% of deaths associated with water recreation", which seems pretty consistent with that.