Drug overdose deaths by race/ethnicity U.S. 2013-2022

In 2022, an estimated 67,974 white, non-Hispanic persons in the United States died from a drug overdose. 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 race/ethnicity.

Number of drug overdose deaths in the U.S. from 2013 to 2022, by race/ethnicity

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Release date

2024

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2013 to 2022

Supplementary notes

* No data available for years prior to 2019.

Figures prior to 2020 were taken from a previous report from the same source and can be found here.
Deaths are classified using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD–10). Drug overdose deaths are identified using underlying cause-of-death codes X40–X44, X60–X64, X85, and Y10–Y14. Age-adjusted death rates were calculated by applying age-specific death rates to the 2000 U.S standard population age distribution.
Deaths for Hispanic persons may be underreported by about 5% for the years 2013 to 2015.
All of the race categories are “single race,” meaning that only one race was reported on the death certificate. Data shown for the Hispanic population include people of any race. Death rates for non-Hispanic Asian, non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN), and Hispanic people may be affected by misclassification of race and Hispanic origin on death certificates. This misclassification could result in underreporting of deaths for these groups by about 3% for non-Hispanic Asian and Hispanic people, and by an estimated 33% for non-Hispanic AIAN people.

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