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By Mat Luebbers, About.com Guide to Swimming since 1999

Reduce Drownings - Drowning Statistics

Tuesday April 17, 2007
The first step in decreasing the number of childhood drownings is to learn more about them:
  • Drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury-related death for children between the age of one and 14. (Centers for Disease Control, 2003)
  • Nine people drown in the United States every day. (CDC)
  • Two-thirds of all drownings occur between May and August. (Orange County California Fire Authority)
  • Approximately 75% of child drownings occur because of a lapse of adult supervision of less than five minutes.
  • African-American children between the ages of five and 19 are 2.6 times more likely to drown than Caucasian children in the same age group. (Centers for Disease Control, 2003)
  • In the swimming pool, African-American boys, between the ages of 5-19 are 12-15 times more likely to drown than their Caucasian peers. (National Institute of Health, 2001)
  • Less than 1% of USA Swimming’s nearly 300,000 members are African-American, and less than 3% are Hispanic.

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