Leading Causes of Death and Cause-Specific Rates by Age
Michigan Residents, 2023
Age Rank and Cause of Death Number Rate
All Ages 1. Diseases of heart 26,165 260.7
2. Malignant neoplasms 20,915 208.4
3. Accidents 6,206 61.8
4. Cerebrovascular diseases 5,787 57.7
5. Chronic lower respiratory diseases 5,129 51.1
  All Causes 103,359 1,029.8
     
Under 1 year 1. Disorders related to short gestation and low birth weight, not elsewhere classified 122 120.3
2. Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities 111 109.5
3. Unintentional injuries 62 61.2
4. Sudden infant death syndrome 47 46.4
5. Bacterial sepsis of newborn 24 23.7
  All Causes 607 598.7
     
1-4 Years 1. Accidents 33 7.7
2. Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities 19 4.4
3. Assault (homicide) 9 2.1
4–5. Cerebrovascular diseases
Malignant neoplasms
4 *
  All Causes 124 28.9
     
5-14 Years 1. Accidents 41 3.4
2–3. Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities
Malignant neoplasms
20 1.7
4. Intentional self-harm (suicide) 19 1.6
5. Assault (homicide) 13 1.1
  All Causes 172 14.4
     
15-24 Years 1. Accidents 291 22.1
2. Intentional self-harm (suicide) 190 14.5
3. Assault (homicide) 151 11.5
4. Malignant neoplasms 46 3.5
5. Diseases of heart 24 1.8
  All Causes 867 66.0
     
25-34 Years 1. Accidents 724 54.9
2. Intentional self-harm (suicide) 288 21.8
3. Assault (homicide) 187 14.2
4. Diseases of heart 107 8.1
5. Malignant neoplasms 100 7.6
  All Causes 1,952 148.0
     
35-49 Years 1. Accidents 1,280 71.5
2. Diseases of heart 755 42.2
3. Malignant neoplasms 680 38.0
4. Intentional self-harm (suicide) 386 21.6
5. Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis 295 16.5
  All Causes 5,091 284.4
     
50-64 Years 1. Malignant neoplasms 4,313 219.3
2. Diseases of heart 3,638 185.0
3. Accidents 1,369 69.6
4. Chronic lower respiratory diseases 725 36.9
5. Diabetes mellitus 631 32.1
  All Causes 15,877 807.4
     
65 and Over 1. Diseases of heart 21,628 1,122.5
2. Malignant neoplasms 15,750 817.4
3. Cerebrovascular diseases 5,211 270.5
4. Chronic lower respiratory diseases 4,326 224.5
5. Alzheimer's disease 4,019 208.6
  All Causes 78,668 4,082.9
     

Note: Age groups do not add to respective totals because records with age not stated are included only in the "All Ages" row. Rates may not agree with those shown elsewhere in this section since records with sex and race not stated were randomly allocated prior to rate calculation for the other tables, and were not included in calculations for this table. Cause-specific rates are per 100,000 population.

Infant deaths were grouped according to 71 rankable causes of infant death from 130 Causes of Infant Death. For other age groups, deaths were grouped according to 50 rankable causes of death from 113 Selected Causes of Death. See ICD-10 Cause of Death Lists of Tabulating Mortality Statistics for a detailed lists of ICD-10 groupings.

Source: 2023 Michigan Resident Death File, Division for Vital Records & Health Statistics, Michigan Department of Health & Human Services; Population Estimate (latest update 7/2020), National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Census Populations With Bridged Race Categories
2020-2022 population is 2020 CDC Bridge estimates proportionally fitted to U.S. Census population estimates. .