Mortality in the US is higher at all ages below age
80, with mortality at ages 20 to 60 performing worse throughout the period.
The relative increase in US mortality at ages 20 to 34 is particularly
sharp, such that US 30-y-olds in 2017 were more
than three times as likely to die as their European counterparts.
The peak at age 30 in the top graph is not sustained in the middle graph
because few people die in this age interval. Instead, excess deaths are
heavily concentrated at ages 55 to 84.
One exception to the poor performance of the US is
that for decades it has had lower death rates at ages 80+ than most other
wealthy countries.
Years of Life Lost weights the number of excess deaths at a
particular age by US life expectancy at that age.
Since life expectancy is higher at younger than at older ages, weighting by
life expectancy shifts values in this panel to the left.
The US lost 13.02 million years of life to excess mortality in 2017.
The US advantage at 85+ is not particularly
consequential because individuals “saved” by lower mortality rates in
the US are expected to live few additional years.
High US mortality in the working ages 25 to 64 accounts for 64.9% of the
years of life lost.
Another 5.8% of lost life years is contributed by
high infant mortality in the US.
Europe = Germany, England and Wales, France, Italy, and Spain
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( Notice the relative position of Death by Homicide )
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