Average age of overdose deaths among U.S. women in 1999 and 2017, by drug type
This statistic depicts the average age at death among U.S. women aged 30 to 64 years who died of a drug overdose in 1999 and 2017, by drug type. According to the data, the average age of death among all overdoses increased from 43.5 years in 1999 to 46.3 years in 2017.