America is Fucked
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Why Americans Die So Much?
U.S. life spans, which have fallen behind those in Europe, are telling us something important about American society.
America has a death problem.
No, I’m not just talking about the past year and a half, during which COVID-19 deaths per capita in the United States outpaced those in similarly rich countries, such as Canada, Japan, and France. And I’m not just talking about the past decade, during which drug overdoses skyrocketed in the U.S., creating a social epidemic of what are often called “deaths of despair.”
I’m talking about the past 30 years. Before the 1990s, average life expectancy in the U.S. was not much different than it was in Germany, the United Kingdom, or France. But since the 1990s, American life spans started falling significantly behind those in similarly wealthy European countries.
According to a new working paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Americans now die earlier than their European counterparts, no matter what age you’re looking at. Compared with Europeans, American babies are more likely to die before they turn 5, American teens are more likely to die before they turn 20, and American adults are more likely to die before they turn 65. At every age, living in the United States carries a higher risk of mortality. This is America’s unsung death penalty, and it adds up. Average life expectancy surged above 80 years old in just about every Western European country in the 2010s, including Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, the U.K., Denmark, and Switzerland. In the U.S., by contrast, the average life span has never exceeded 79—and now it’s just taken a historic tumble.
- read a while ago that life expectancy varies 30 years based on wealth over there. truly fuckedkingsteven
- Adding that question mark to the title really ruins this piece of journalism lolnb
- what fat fuck downvoted this?GuyFawkes
- Well it's pretty obvious why. Y'all have guns, obesity and toxic processed foods.shapesalad
- Everyone has those things dude.monospaced
- I got yer star spangled ding dong right here pal.BK
- There's no way we don't have more guns obesity and eat worse.CyBrainX