{"id":1357664,"name":"Polio deaths","unit":"deaths","createdAt":"2026-11-13T14:53:30.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-11-13T14:53:30.000Z","coverage":"","timespan":"1910-2025","datasetId":8278,"columnOrder":0,"shortName":"deaths","catalogPath":"grapher/health/2026-11-06/polio_deaths/polio_deaths#deaths","descriptionShort":"Reported deaths from acute polio in a given year. The reported figures include both [wild-](#dod:wild-poliovirus) and [vaccine-derived poliovirus](#dod:vaccine-derived-poliovirus) infections that occurred indigenously and as imported cases.","type":"int","datasetName":"Long-run reported polio deaths in the United States","updatePeriodDays":365,"datasetVersion":"2026-11-06","nonRedistributable":false,"display":{"unit":"deaths","numDecimalPlaces":0},"schemaVersion":2,"processingLevel":"minor","presentation":{"attributionShort":"CDC and others","topicTagsLinks":["Vaccination"]},"descriptionKey":"- Data on reported deaths from acute polio have been compiled from historical Public Health Reports for the United States and from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and its CDC WONDER mortality data.\n- Acute polio deaths are defined as deaths from an acute polio infection, and not post-polio syndrome.\n- The first polio vaccine was created by Jonas Salk, it was licensed and began to be administered in 1955.\n- A second polio vaccine, developed by Albert Sabin in the 1950s, was licensed in the United States in 1961.\n- The count for 2025 is provisional. It comes from the CDC's provisional mortality data, which can still be revised before the CDC finalizes it.","dimensions":{"years":{"values":[{"id":1910},{"id":1911},{"id":1913},{"id":1914},{"id":1915},{"id":1916},{"id":1917},{"id":1918},{"id":1919},{"id":1920},{"id":1921},{"id":1922},{"id":1923},{"id":1924},{"id":1925},{"id":1926},{"id":1927},{"id":1928},{"id":1929},{"id":1930},{"id":1931},{"id":1932},{"id":1933},{"id":1934},{"id":1935},{"id":1936},{"id":1937},{"id":1938},{"id":1939},{"id":1940},{"id":1942},{"id":1943},{"id":1944},{"id":1945},{"id":1946},{"id":1947},{"id":1948},{"id":1949},{"id":1950},{"id":1951},{"id":1952},{"id":1953},{"id":1954},{"id":1955},{"id":1956},{"id":1957},{"id":1958},{"id":1959},{"id":1960},{"id":1961},{"id":1962},{"id":1963},{"id":1964},{"id":1965},{"id":1966},{"id":1967},{"id":1968},{"id":1969},{"id":1970},{"id":1971},{"id":1972},{"id":1973},{"id":1974},{"id":1975},{"id":1976},{"id":1977},{"id":1978},{"id":1979},{"id":1980},{"id":1981},{"id":1982},{"id":1983},{"id":1984},{"id":1985},{"id":1986},{"id":1987},{"id":1988},{"id":1989},{"id":1990},{"id":1991},{"id":1992},{"id":1993},{"id":1994},{"id":1995},{"id":1996},{"id":1997},{"id":1998},{"id":1999},{"id":2000},{"id":2001},{"id":2002},{"id":2003},{"id":2004},{"id":2005},{"id":2006},{"id":2007},{"id":2008},{"id":2009},{"id":2010},{"id":2011},{"id":2012},{"id":2013},{"id":2014},{"id":2015},{"id":2016},{"id":2017},{"id":2018},{"id":2019},{"id":2020},{"id":2021},{"id":2022},{"id":2023},{"id":2024},{"id":2025}]},"entities":{"values":[{"id":13,"name":"United States","code":"USA"}]}},"origins":[{"id":24726,"title":"Historical polio deaths in the United States – Public Health Reports","description":"Data on historical polio deaths in the United States, compiled from a selection of sources from the United States - Public Health Reports.\n\nSources for each year are as follows:\n\n* 1910-11: [Public Health Reports Vol. 27, No. 16 “Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1910 and 1911\"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4567726?seq=4)\n\n* 1913: [Public Health Reports Vol. 29, No. 28 “The Notifiable Diseases: Their Prevalence by States during 1913”](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4570998?seq=12)\n\n* 1914: [Public Health Reports Vol. 39, No. 36 “The Notifiable Diseases: Reported Prevalence during 1914 by States”](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4572751?seq=7)\n\n* 1915-1937: [Public Health Reports Vol. 54, No. 21 “Prevalence of Poliomyelitis in the United States in 1938”](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4582892?seq=1)\n\n* 1938: [Public Health Reports Vol. 55, No. 10 “Notifiable Diseases in the United States, 1938: Morbidity and Mortality Summaries for Certain Important Communicable Diseases\"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4583204?seq=1)\n\n* 1939: [Public Health Reports, Vol. 56, No. 7 - Notifiable Diseases in the United States, 1939: Morbidity and Mortality Summaries for Certain Important Communicable Diseases (1941)](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4583620)\n\n* 1940: [Public Health Reports, Vol. 57, No. 7 - Notifiable Diseases in the United States, 1940: Morbidity and Mortality Summaries for Certain Important Communicable Diseases (1942)](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4584013)\n\n* 1942-1947: [Public Health Reports Vol. 63, No. 13 - Incidence of Poliomyelitis in 1947](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4586491)\n\n* 1948-1949: [Public Health Reports Vol. 67, No. 6 - Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1951](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4588131)","producer":"Public Health Reports","citationFull":"Public Health Reports Vol. 27, No. 16 “Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1910 and 1911\"\n\nPublic Health Reports Vol. 29, No. 28 “The Notifiable Diseases: Their Prevalence by States during 1913”\n\nPublic Health Reports Vol. 39, No. 36 “The Notifiable Diseases: Reported Prevalence during 1914 by States”\n\nPublic Health Reports Vol. 54, No. 21 “Prevalence of Poliomyelitis in the United States in 1938”\n\nPublic Health Reports Vol. 55, No. 10 “Notifiable Diseases in the United States, 1938: Morbidity and Mortality Summaries for Certain Important Communicable Diseases\"\n\nPublic Health Reports, Vol. 56, No. 7 – Notifiable Diseases in the United States, 1939: Morbidity and Mortality Summaries for Certain Important Communicable Diseases (1941)\n\nPublic Health Reports, Vol. 57, No. 7 – Notifiable Diseases in the United States, 1940: Morbidity and Mortality Summaries for Certain Important Communicable Diseases (1942)\n\nPublic Health Reports Vol. 63, No. 13 – Incidence of Poliomyelitis in 1947\n\nPublic Health Reports Vol. 67, No. 6 – Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1951","urlMain":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/4588131","dateAccessed":"2025-03-12","datePublished":"1942-02-13","license":{"name":"Public domain"}},{"id":28448,"title":"Historical polio deaths in the United States – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention","description":"Data on historical polio deaths in the United States, compiled from a selection of sources from the US CDC.\n\nFrom 1950, these are deaths with acute poliomyelitis as the underlying cause on the death certificate, from the National Center for Health Statistics' death records (ICD-7 code 080 until 1967; ICD-8, ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes after that). In the years checked (1950-1967 and 1999-2025), deaths from the late effects of polio are not included.\n\nSources for each year are as follows:\n\n* 1950-1959: [Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Vol. 9, No. 53, Annual Supplement: Reported Incidence of Notifiable Diseases in the United States, 1960 (1961), Table 3A](https://www.globalhealthchronicles.org/items/show/6303)\n\n* 1960-1967: [Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Vol. 19, No. 53, Annual Supplement: Summary 1970 (1971), Table 3A](https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/951)\n\n* 1968-1978: [Compressed Mortality, 1968-1978 - CDC WONDER (ICD-8)](https://wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd8.html)\n\n* 1979-1998: [Compressed Mortality, 1979-1998 - CDC WONDER (ICD-9)](https://wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd9.html)\n\n* 1999-2020: [Underlying Cause of Death, 1999-2020 - CDC WONDER (ICD-10)](https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10.html)\n\n* 2018-2023: [Underlying Cause of Death by Single-Race Categories - CDC WONDER (ICD-10)](https://wonder.cdc.gov/deaths-by-underlying-cause.html)\n\n* 2024: [Underlying Cause of Death, 2018-2024, Single Race - CDC WONDER (ICD-10)](https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10-expanded.html)\n\n* 2025: [Provisional Mortality Statistics, 2018 through Last Week - CDC WONDER (ICD-10)](https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10-provisional.html). This count is provisional and can still be revised.\n\nFrom 1999, deaths are those with acute poliomyelitis (ICD-10 code A80) as the underlying cause of death.","producer":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention","citationFull":"Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Vol. 9, No. 53, Annual Supplement: Reported Incidence of Notifiable Diseases in the United States, 1960 (1961), Communicable Disease Center, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.\n\nMorbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Vol. 19, No. 53, Annual Supplement: Summary 1970 (1971)\n\nCompressed Mortality, 1968-1978 – CDC WONDER (ICD-8)\n\nCompressed Mortality, 1979-1998 – CDC WONDER (ICD-9)\n\nUnderlying Cause of Death, 1999-2020 – CDC WONDER (ICD-10)\n\nUnderlying Cause of Death by Single-Race Categories – CDC WONDER (ICD-10)\n\nUnderlying Cause of Death, 2018-2024, Single Race – CDC WONDER (ICD-10)\n\nProvisional Mortality Statistics, 2018 through Last Week – CDC WONDER (ICD-10)","urlMain":"https://wonder.cdc.gov/deaths-by-underlying-cause.html","dateAccessed":"2026-11-06","datePublished":"2026-11-06","license":{"name":"Public domain"}}]}