Table 4.  Excess Deaths in the Black Belt, by Race and Top 20 Causes of Deaths Among Blacks
Racial Group in Black
Belt for Which Deaths
Are Counted
All
Races

Black

White
Race and region compared to
which the above group
has excess deaths 
All Races
White
Black
White
Remain-
der
of
South
Non-
South
Black
Belt

Remain-
der
of
South

Non-
South
Remain-
der
of
 South
Non-
South
 
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
Total (net) excess deaths from all causes
9,624
9,343
6,501
836
870
3,197
2,201
1. Heart Disease
2,892
1,429
1,181
390
68
1,311
232
2. Cancer (malignant neoplasms)
1,078
479
553
-204
-821
487
46
3. Stroke and related conditions (cerebrovascular disease)
1,444
2,133
1,004
183
1,024
449
693
4.  Accidents
695
1,317
339
200
778
240
511
5. Unknown cause (a)
693
1,194
984
366
618
-66
179
6. Homicide and legal intervention
494
735
758
-15
-188
-1
98
7. Perinatal-origin conditions (b)
313
386
388
24
-41
27
32
8. Diabetes (diabetes mellitus)
349
276
405
11
31
42
-45
9. Pneumonia and influenza
116
-137
66
-43
-187
54
-99
10. Kidney disease, except infections (c)
287
368
305
32
95
43
60
11. Chronic Obstructive pulmonary disease and related conditions
-76
-187
-357
-25
-122
118
77
12. Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
50
-81
24
-59
-333
37
-19
13. Atherosclerosis (a common form of arteriosclerosis)
4
-35
-4
-35
13
9
-24
14. Bacterial blood infection (septicemia)
193
223
162
59
40
41
48
15. Birth "defects" (congenital anomalies)
31
45
-17
12
0
20
27
16. High blood pressure (hypertension)
116
113
166
5
34
-1
-20
17. Arterial diseases not listed elsewhere in this table
4
-55
-46
-17
-30
28
-6
18. Suicide
-83
-25
-284
-11
-50
69
126
19. Anemia
46
61
52
-1
19
8
10
20. Other neoplasms (d)
14
7
11
-19
-13
8
0
All other causes
964
1,097
811
-17
-65
274
275
(a) "Symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions"
(b) Conditions originating shortly before or after birth
(c) Nephritis, neophronic syndrome, nephrosis
(d) Benign neoplasms, noninvasive carcinomas, neoplasms not listed elsewhere

Note: Negative numbers indicate "shortages" of deaths vis-a-vis the comparison group.  Causes of death are listed
in descending rank order of deaths to Blacks in the Black Belt.