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Figure 4-2, Maltreatment Fatalities by Age and Sex, 1999 DCDC

Figure 4-2 is a bar chart that presents the percentage of maltreatment fatalities by age and sex. For each age group, the percentage of fatalities for each sex is presented.

The data presented in the chart are as follows:

Male Children
Younger than age 1, 21.4%
age 1, 7.8%
age 2, 5.4%
age 3, 5.4%
age 4, 2.8%
age 5, 2.4%
age 6 and older, 7.6%

Female Children
Younger than age 1, 21.2%
age 1, 8.7%
age 2, 4.5%
age 3, 2.6%
age 4, 1.9%
age 5, 2.0%
age 6 and older, 6.3%

The data presented in this bar chart are also available in table 4-3.