In 2017, the age-adjusted prostate cancer death rate among all males was 18.7 per 100,000, down from 31.3 in 1999. During 1999–2017, non-Hispanic black males had the highest prostate cancer death rate. In 2017, the rate for non-Hispanic black males was 36.8, compared with 17.8 for non-Hispanic white males and 15.4 for Hispanic males.
Source: National Vital Statistics System, Mortality, 1999–2017. https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10.html.
Footnotes
Deaths per 100,000 population, age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population.
Prostate cancer deaths were those with the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) underlying cause of death code C61.

