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Child Maltreatment 2001
Table 5-3 Child Fatalities by Age and Sex, 2001

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	212	23.1	163	17.8	375	40.9
1	89	9.7	69	7.5	158	17.2
2	57	6.2	45	4.9	102	11.1
3	48	5.2	32	3.5	80	8.7
4	22	2.4	19	2.1	41	4.5
5	11	1.2	7	0.8	18	2.0
6+	74	8.1	68	7.4	142	15.5
Total	bold513	blank cell	bold403	blank cell	bold916	blank cell
Percentage	blank cell	bold55.9	blank cell	bold44.0	blank cell	bold99.9

Based on data from 30 States: Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Two States —Maine and Vermont —reported zero fatalities in the Child File.

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

Total does not equal 100 percent due to rounding.

This table compares the age and gender of children who died from maltreatment. The first column lists the ages ranging from less than 1 year to 6 years or older, each 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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