The missing Americans: Unprecedented US mortality far exceeds other wealthy nations PNASNexus
Data on deaths and population denominators starting in 1933 were obtained from the HMD, which compiles official data from national vital registries and censuses. We augmented the HMD standard long-term mortality series with data from the HMD's Short-Term Mortality Fluctuations database, which includes more complete data for 2020 and 2021. Both databases were accessed 2023 January 3; STMF was last updated 2022 December 17; HMD long series was last updated 2022 December 27.
For each country, we extracted annual ASMRs, deaths, and denominators for 5-year age groups from the HMD long series. Seven countries had detailed data from the HMD long series through 2021. All remaining countries had data at least through 2019 . For countries missing 2020 and/or 2021 data, we extracted data on deaths using the original input data from the STMF database.
As a benchmark against which to compute excess US mortality, we calculated the average ASMR across the 21 other wealthy countries for each age group and year . We weighted countries by population [following ], comparing the mortality risks faced by US residents with a representative set of residents of other wealthy nations. We then computed the number of deaths that would have occurred in the United States if the US population had experienced the age-specific mortality profile of peer nations.
We also calculated excess US years of life lost . YLL captures the number of years that a person would have been expected to live had they survived, placing greater weight on deaths at younger ages. We defined “excess US YLL” as the YLL that would be averted if the United States had the ASMRs of other wealthy nations.
Next, we compared ASMRs for US racial/ethnic groups relative to the average of other wealthy nations, combining all racial/ethnic groups in those countries into a single benchmark. We obtained data on US mortality and population denominators for 1999–2021, stratified by age and race/ethnicity, from the Multiple Cause of Death Files hosted on the CDC WONDER database .
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