Mortality Rates, Mortality Rate Ratios, and Excess US Deaths Attributable to the US Mortality Disadvantage Relative to Other High-Income Countries (HIC) (IMAGE)

Boston University School of Public Health

Mortality Rates, Mortality Rate Ratios, and Excess US Deaths Attributable to the US Mortality Disadvantage Relative to Other High-Income Countries (HIC)

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A. Trends in US mortality rates, mortality rates of other HICs, and average mortality rates in other HICs standardized to the US age distribution in each year (1980-2023). B. Age-specific mortality rate ratios comparing US mortality rates to the average of other HICs (2014-2023). C. Excess deaths attributable to the US mortality disadvantage (1980-2023). D. Linear extrapolation of the prepandemic trend in excess deaths over the period from 2020 to 2023. 

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