2023 NORTH CAROLINA INFANT MORTALITY REPORT, TABLE 11
NC Resident Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths (SUID) by Listed Cause of Death, 2009-2023

  SIDS (ICD Code
R95)
Unknown Cause (ICD
Code R99)
Accidental Suffocation
and Strangulation
in Bed (ICD Code
W75)
Total SUID
Year 98 48 7 153
2009
2010 53 46 13 112
2011 50 64 11 125
2012 28 92 16 136
2013 23 75 11 109
2015 12 113 13 138
2016 26 208 44 278
2017 9 109 10 128
2018 3 116 10 129
2019 7 106 22 135
2020 4 91 26 121
2021 6 146 29 181
2022 14 106 27 147
2023 12 108 17 137

Prepared by NC Department of Health & Human Services, Title V Office in Collaboration with the State Center for Health Statistics, 07FEB2025