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Percentage of children with high BLL in U.S. 1997 to 2015

Percentage of children with high blood lead levels (BLL) in the United States from 1997 to 2015

The data displays the percentage of children with high blood lead levels (BLL's ≥10 µg/dL) in the U.S. from the year 1997 to 2015. The highest percentage of children detected with high blood lead level were 7.61% of the children tested in the year 1997.

1997	7.61
1998	6.5
1999	5.03
2000	3.96
2001	3.03
2002	2.56
2003	2.27
2004	1.76
2005	1.53
2006	1.2
2007	0.94
2008	0.72
2009	0.61
2010	0.6
2011	0.54
2012	0.61
2013	0.54
2014	0.53
2015	0.5

Percentage of children with high BLL in U.S. 1997 to 2015

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