US Life expectancy is short and getting shorter

Created March 2023

Also: Maternal mortality in the U.S. reached a high in 2021.
Also, a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association
found rising mortality rates among U.S. children and adolescents.
"American children are less likely to live to age 5 than children in other high-income countries," the authors write on the second page. It goes on: "Even Americans with healthy behaviors,
- for example, those who are not obese or do not smoke, appear to have higher disease rates than their peers in other countries."
""If you add up the excess deaths that have occurred in the United States because of this unfolding problem, it dwarfs what happened during COVID-19,..."
However, "the United States has higher survival after age 75 than do peer countries,..."

Reminder: in the US Big Pharma just has to show that a new drug is better than a placebo.
In many other countries a new drug must be more cost-effective than the existing drug.


Japan	84.6
Iceland	83.1
UK	80.9
US	77.3
Saudi Arabia	76.6	$1bn/year funding to increase it
World	73.3