Child Deaths by Drowning
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There are roughly 550 children under the age of ten that drown each year in the United States. That amounts to approximately 1 child for every 11,000 residential pools in the US (there are about 6,000,000 pools in the US).
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[edit] Source
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, 2005, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, p149, which refers to "Pools More Dangerous than Guns," Chicago Sun-Times, July 28, 2001, by Steven D. Levitt.
