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Child Maltreatment 2000
Table 5-4 Child Fatality Victims by Age and Sex, 2000

The word bold before a number indicates an estimate or a total.

Age	Male		Female		Total Fatality Victims
	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage
<1	175	25.6	124	18.1	299	43.7
1	63	9.2	49	7.2	112	16.4
2	36	5.3	37	5.4	73	10.7
3	27	3.9	18	2.6	45	6.6
4	13	1.9	14	2.0	27	3.9
5	17	2.5	9	1.3	26	3.8
> 5	57	8.3	45	6.6	102	14.9
Total/Percentage	bold388	bold56.7	bold296	bold43.3	bold684	bold100.0

Based on data from 25 States: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

If a State did not report the age or sex of a child fatality victim, that fatality was not included in this analysis.

This table compares the age and gender of children who die from maltreatment. The first column lists the ages ranging from less than one to greater than five, each other age with its own row. The next two columns account for male victims and female victims respectively. The last column reports the total fatality victims, regardless of sex. Each column reports the number of child fatalities, corresponding to the age and sex of the child, in addition to the percentage of the fatalities that fell within the specified age and sex.

 

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