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Drowning Is the leading cause of unintentional death for children ages 1-4 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).**
DEATHS
356 – Annual average number of drowning deaths in pools and spas of children ages 0-14 from 2012-2014 as reported to CPSC.
77% of deaths involved children younger than age 5.
Deaths typically occur either the same day or within a week of the incident.
African-American children between ages 5 and 19 are
5.5 times more likely to drown
in a pool than white children of the same age.***
On average, more than 350 children drown each year- and a majority of these children are younger than five.
Nearly 80% of people who die from drowning are male.
Children ages 1 to 4 have the highest drowning rates. In 2014, among children 1 to 4 years old who died from an unintentional injury, one-third died from drowning. Among children ages 1 to 4, most drownings occur in home swimming pools.
Drowning is responsible for more deaths among children 1-4 than any other cause except congenital anomalies (birth defects). Among those 1-14, fatal drowning remains the second-leading cause of unintentional injury-related death behind motor vehicle crashes.