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COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death across most of 2020, but in December 2020 and early 2021, the illness surged and briefly became the number one leading cause of death in the U.S., far surpassing even cancer and …
Over the last several decades, life expectancy in the U.S. and comparable countries has improved substantially. As medical care improved and more individuals gained access to healthcare, life expectancy has generally increased.
Since the 1980s, however, growth in life expectancy …
Note: An updated version of this analysis is here.
COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death across most of 2020, but in December 2020 and early 2021, the illness surged and briefly became the number one leading cause of …
Note: An updated version of this analysis is here.
COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death across all of 2020, but in December 2020 and early 2021, the illness surged and briefly became the number one leading cause of …
Researchers have used a variety of measures to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including deaths directly attributed to COVID-19 infection and deaths in excess of prior years’ death rates. However, these measures do not incorporate the prematurity of …
Infant mortality (the death of an infant within the first year of life) is a widely-reported indicator of population health. This chart collection highlights key infant mortality trends and demographic variation within the United States and also explores infant mortality …
Note: A related chart collection is now updated with more recent data.
Mental health and substance use disorders are the leading cause of disease burden in the United States. With 10.1 deaths due to mental health or substance abuse disorders …
Compared to similar countries, the United States has higher rates of mortality for most of the leading causes of death, and generally performs worse on a variety of quality indicators. Diabetes and endocrine diseases are no exception. There has been …
Note: A related chart collection is now updated with more recent data.
Despite having significantly higher health spending than comparably wealthy and sizable countries, the U.S. lags behind other countries in several measures of health outcomes, with worse life expectancy, …
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently updated their disease-based health spending estimates with new data that allows users to examine national health spending trends by disease category from 2000 – 2012. The BEA satellite account differs from the official …