A research report from Safe Kids Worldwide found that in 2016, more than 1,000 people younger than 19 years of age drowned.

“If we look at children between the ages of 1 and 4, of the fatal drownings, 57% of them drown in a pool and only 22% drown in open water,” Morag MacKay, director of research at Safe Kids Worldwide, told Healio.com/Orthopedics. “When we get up to 15- to 19-year-olds, 73% of them drown in open water and only 9% drown in a pool.”