Tag: rate of mortality improvement
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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…