Tag: mortality
Mortality has regularly improved, but the pace of the gains fluctuates significantly. Before the holidays, we talked about how U.S. mortality improvements have fallen behind other high-income countries so that the United States is now at the bottom of that group in terms of life expectancy. It is also interesting to look at how t…
The brief’s key findings are: In recent decades, life expectancy at age 65 in the U.S. has been lagging behind other high-income countries, particularly for women. A major reason is that, historically, the U.S. has had higher rates of smoking and obesity. As a result, the U.S. has made less progress at reducing deaths related…
