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Preventing children's accidents on a societal level

Part 1 : Trends in consumer issues and consumers' attitude/behavior
Chapter 2 : [Feature] Toward the prevention of children's accidents
Section 1 : Preventing children's accidents on a societal level

"Accidents" are in top 4 leading causes of death among children.

  • In 2016, "accidents" took lives of 292 children aged 14 and under.
  • The number of children's death caused by "accidents (excluding transport accidents and exposure to forces of nature)" has significantly reduced in a long term, and it became less than one tenth in the 35 years from 1980 to 2015.

Figure Ⅰ-2-1-1 Top 5 leading causes of death among children in 2016

Figure Ⅰ-2-1-2 The changes in the number of children's death caused by "accidents (excluding transport accidents and exposure to forces of nature)"

Approx. 90% of deaths among age 0 is caused by "suffocation," and nearly half of deaths among ages 1 & over are caused by "drowning."

  • Looking at the breakdown of the causes of children's death by "accidents (excluding transport accidents and exposure to forces of nature)," approx. 90% of death among those in the "age 0" group are caused by suffocation.
  • "Drowning" caused 45.6% of death among children in the "ages 1 to 4" group, 52.9% among "ages 5 to 9" group, and 52.6% among "ages 10 to 14" group, and it accounts for nearly half of death among children ages 1 & over.

Figure Ⅰ-2-1-4 The breakdown of causes of children's death by "accidents (excluding transport accidents and exposure to forces of nature)" by age group (2016)