--- title: New Study Shows What's Killing Americans description: Here's why Americans die, on average, so much younger than people in other countries. canonical: https://time.com/4215331/guns-cars-drugs-killing-americans/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-10T14:22:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:56:40.124Z article:section: Health og:title: New Study Shows What's Killing Americans og:description: Here's why Americans die, on average, so much younger than people in other countries og:url: https://time.com/4215331/guns-cars-drugs-killing-americans/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New Study Shows What's Killing Americans twitter:description: Here's why Americans die, on average, so much younger than people in other countries twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # New Study Shows What's Killing Americans by [Maggie Fox / NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Maggie Fox / NBC News Feb 10, 2016 2:22 PM UTC by [Maggie Fox / NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Maggie Fox / NBC News Feb 10, 2016 2:22 PM UTC Guns, vehicle crashes and drug overdoses help explain a big part of why Americans die, on average, so much younger than people in other countries, government researchers said Tuesday. They looked at three very American causes of death and found they go a long way to explaining the gap between the U.S. and other rich countries such as Austria and Britain. “The three injury causes accounted for 6 percent of deaths among U.S. men and 3 percent among U.S. women,” Andrew Fenelon and colleagues at the National Center for Health Statistics wrote. While the findings don’t explain all the difference, they provide… [_Read the rest of this story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/what-s-killing-americans-guns-cars-drugs-n515066) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4215331/guns-cars-drugs-killing-americans/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4215331/guns-cars-drugs-killing-americans/"},"headline":"New Study Shows What's Killing Americans","datePublished":"2016-02-10T14:22:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:56:40.124Z","description":"Here's why Americans die, on average, so much younger than people in other countries","url":"https://time.com/4215331/guns-cars-drugs-killing-americans/","keywords":["Research","Health Care","Death","Drugs","cars","health","Guns","Report"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maggie Fox / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/research/","name":"Research"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4215331/guns-cars-drugs-killing-americans/","name":"New Study Shows What's Killing Americans"}}]}] ```