Annual numbers of excess deaths in the US relative to other developed countries are growing at an alarming rate
- Written by Patrick Heuveline, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
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The big idea
People in the U.S. are dying at higher rates than in other similar high-income countries, and that difference is only growing....