On Which Day of the Week do the Most Deaths Occur?

On which day of the week do the most deaths occur?  According to an article by Sara G. Miller for Live Science, more deaths occur on a Saturday than any other day of the week.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Wonder database contains data on all deaths in the U.S. from 1999 to 2014.  The numbers reported below represent data collected from this period.

– Deaths from accidents peaked on Saturdays and Sundays.  Car crash-related deaths, for example, were higher on Saturdays, followed by Sundays and Fridays.

– Firearm deaths also peaked on the weekends, increasing from between 23,000 and 25,000 total on the different weekdays to more than 31,000 deaths during the Saturdays and Sundays of the study period. 

– On a much smaller scale, the greatest number of deaths due to “contact with a venomous plant or animal” (the official term for this cause of death) also occurred on Saturdays. Over the 15-year period, there were a total of 216 reported deaths from a poisonous plant or animal.

Other data in the article shows that heart attacks peak on Mondays, with death from the flu and pneumonia occurring more on Tuesdays.

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