Table 4. Average and total lifetime cost (US $) of Annual Unintentional Fall-Related Injuries Resulting in Death, Hospitalization or an Emergency Department Visit in the U.S. by age-groups, 2010^*.

	Death		Hospitalization		Emergency Department Visits
Age-groups	Average Cost c ($)	Total Costa d ($,000)	Average Cost c ($)	Total Costa d ($,000)	Average Cost c ($)	Total Costa d ($,000)	Total Cost of Fall-related Injuries a e ($,000)	Population in Each Age-group (2010) b	Cost of Fall-Related Injury per Person f (Total Cost/Person, $)
18–24	1,887,705	356,776	181,949	2,938,802	6,575	4,011,673	7,307,251	30,672,088	238.24
25–34	1,908,136	570,533	183,753	5,159,815	6,648	5,296,202	11,026,550	41,063,948	268.52
35–44	1,550,187	764,242	197,013	7,781,336	6,938	5,179,236	13,724,814	41,070,606	334.18
45–54	1,083,457	1,390,075	185,623	14,988,049	7,107	6,349,632	22,727,756	45,006,716	504.99
55–64	600,934	1,208,478	117,596	12,362,819	5,783	4,321,450	17,892,747	36,482,729	490.44
65–74	275,964	824,580	84,523	12,305,483	4,895	2,740,821	15,870,884	21,713,429	730.92
75+	109,387	2,041,268	61,866	17,218,034	4,107	2,746,470	22,005,772	18,554,555	1186.00
All Adults (18+)	276,036	7,155,952	104,909	72,754,338	6,102	30,645,484	110,555,774	234,564,071	471.32

* Data extracted from WISQARS http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/

^a In thousands

^b Census data from 2010

^c Average lifetime cost of fall-related injury that resulted in death, hospitalization or emergency department visit, respectively

^d Total lifetime cost of fall-related injury that resulted in death, hospitalization or emergency department visit, respectively (average cost * number of injuries)

^e Total cost of fall-related injuries (sum of the total lifetime cost of fall-related injury that resulted in death, hospitalization or emergency department visit

^f Lifetime cost of fall-related injury per person (Total cost of fall-related injuries in an age group ÷ total population in the age group)