--- description: Here's why Americans die, on average, so much younger than people in other countries. title: New Study Shows What's Killing Americans image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Health](/section/health/) ## Health Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Research](/tag/research/) ## Research Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # New Study Shows What's Killing Americans by [Maggie Fox / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Maggie Fox / NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 10, 2016 2:22 PM CUT by [Maggie Fox / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Maggie Fox / NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 10, 2016 2:22 PM CUT 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 "undefined") ```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"}}]}] ```