Traumatic Brain Injury Statistics

• Emergency Department Visits: 2,500,000 (6,849 per day)
• Hospitalizations: 282,000 (773 per day)
• Deaths: 56,000 (153 per day)
• Nearly 1/3 of all injury-related deaths in the US involve a traumatic brain injury*
• About 75% of TBIs that occur each year are concussions or other forms of mild traumatic brain injury*
• Direct medical costs and indirect costs of TBI, such as lost productivity, totaled an estimated $60 billion in the United States in the year 2000*
• Ages 0-4, 15-24 and 75+ are most likely to sustain a traumatic brain injury
• Traumatic brain injury rates are higher for males than for females
• Falls are the leading cause of traumatic brain injury
• Self-harm was the leading causes of traumatic brain injury related death

Source: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2013) and *(2010)