Drowning Data Dashboard

Prepared for the World Academy of Safety & Health. Refreshed daily from official sources. Generated —.

What this is — and isn't. US death figures are provisional CDC data with a 2–6 month reporting lag; recent months revise upward. There is no official daily drowning count anywhere in the world — the daily panel below tracks news mentions of drowning, not incidents or deaths. Counts of 1–9 are suppressed per CDC data-use rules.

US drowning deaths — monthly trend

Bar view — same data as the line graph above.

By age group

By sex

By race

By ethnicity

Drowning setting

US states manual

Children & pools / spas

Boating-related drowning

Autism elopement / wandering

Drowning in the news — daily media mentions not deaths

⚠ This panel counts how often drowning appears in world news coverage. It is NOT a count of drowning incidents or deaths.