American kids are less likely to reach adulthood than foreign peers

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Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 classmates and teachers were killed during a mass shooting, leave school together for the National School Walkout on April 20, 2018, in Parkland, Fla. Between 2007 to 2023, U.S. children and teens had a mortality rate nearly double that of their peers in wealthy countries, according to a new study.(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Babies and children in the United States are nearly twice as likely to die before reaching adulthood compared with their peers in other wealthy countries, according to a new study.

The health of U.S. children has deteriorated since the early 2000s across a range of measures, researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of California, Los Angeles found. They published their findings last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The study compared infant and child deaths in the U.S. with the figures from 18 other high-income nations between 2007 to 2023.

U.S. infants, children and teens were about 1.8 times more likely to die before reaching adulthood compared with young people in peer countries, researchers discovered.

For babies, the two causes of death with the biggest gaps between the U.S. and the other countries were prematurity — being born too early — and sudden unexpected infant death.

https://stateline.org/2025/08/28/american-kids-are-less-likely-to-reach-adulthood-than-foreign-peers/

[ananda]

1. no one should be surprised when the economy...

has been flood up since Arthur Laffer and the 80's

[Blues Heron]

2. being in proximity to Republicans and their policies is hazardous to your health.

Theirs is an unhealthy outlook, riddled with paranoia and violence.

[Lovie777]

3. Children dying of gun violence is #1 in the USA....................

the GQP puts guns over children's lives.