Traumatic Brain Injury Statistics
- Emergency Department Visits: 1,365,000 (3,740 per day)
- Hospitalizations: 275,000 (753 per day)
- Deaths: 52,000 (142 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, 15-19 and 65+ 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
- Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of traumatic brain injury related death
Source: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2010)