I would like to know the number of children up to the age 18 who have
died in a one year period in the US. All causes included. The year can
be either 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 or 2004. Thank you in advance.
Sarah Ann

Hello Sarah Ann

Thank-you for your question.

I have researched your question for the year 2002 as this was the year
where I could gather the most information and break it down most
completely for you.

In 2002 in the USA, the total number of deaths was 2,443,387 people. 
This equates to a death rate of 845.3 deaths per 100,000 people.  The
average life expectancy was 77.3 years.  When this data is broken down
further to concentrate solely on children the following data is
obtained:

Age (years)            Number of deaths    Rate per 100,000
less than 1                   28,034              695.0
1-4                            4,858               31.2
5-9                            3,018               15.2
10-14                          4,132               19.5
15-19                         13,812               67.8

These statistics were obtained from the National Center for Health
Statistics (NCHS):
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/pdf/mortality/nvsr53_05t03.pdf

The NCHS is the primary source of health, birth and death data for the
USA, this is confirmed on the US census.gov website:
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/death.html

If you require any further assistance on this subject please ask for
clarification and I will do my best to respond swiftly.

The information and links are exactly what I needed. I received my
answer so quickly, I thank you very much.

May be this helps:
http://www.disastercenter.com/cdc/

http://www.the-eggman.com/writings/death_stats.html

Dear Palitoy,
Thank you so very much for the exact information that I needed. I
spent so much time searching for it. And now, here it is!! The links
help me a lot, too. And livioflores, thank you for your time and the
useful information. Hope you both have a nice weekend--I will, now
that I can get on with my work.

Sarah Ann