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. 2016 Nov 10;27(1):62–73. doi: 10.1017/S2045796016000792

Table 1.

Total number of deaths, age-adjusted all-cause mortality rates and age-adjusted suicide mortality rates for Korean (WHO data), Korean American, Non-Hispanic White (NHW), aggregate Asian American and selected Asian American subgroups, 2003–2012. (36 state data)

Koreans Korean Americans Non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs) Aggregate Asian Americansa Asian Indian Americans Chinese Americans Filipino Americans Japanese Americans Vietnamese Americans
Men
Population size 24 977 164 514 594 70 846 958 4 820 509 1 204 010 1 328 769 939 162 214 807 619 167
Total number of deaths, 2003–2012 1 377 742 14 490 7 076 443 150 284 22 164 47 065 34 691 16 253 15 621
Age-adjusted all-cause mortality rate 609.9 299.3 592.1 298.8 274.0 268.7 347.5 336.3 281.4
Age-adjusted suicide mortality rate 32.4 13.9 21.0 6.9 5.4 5.4 5.9 10.7 7.6
Women
Population size 24 902 648 624 865 73 110 261 5 386 009 1 115 216 1 505 514 1 187 590 300 157 652 667
Total number of deaths, 2003–2012 1 109 632 16 302 7 351 928 142 506 15 198 42 337 34 988 21 663 12 018
Age-adjusted all-cause mortality rate 325.0 218.9 406.0 203.4 198.4 184.7 213.4 230.9 192.5
Age-adjusted suicide mortality rate 14.8 6.5 5.6 2.9 1.9 3.0 1.6 4.2 2.4
a

Aggregate Asian Americans combine data from Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese Americans.