The U.S. death rate has dropped to prepandemic levels as COVID-19 fell out of the top 10 leading causes of death, according to research published Wednesday.

The death rate fell by 3.8 percent in 2024, with the overall rate declining from 750.5 per 100,000 people in 2023 to 722 per 100,000 last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reported.

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