Workers in the United States are dying at higher rates than those in other wealthy nations, a new study finds.
Workers in the United States are dying at higher rates than those in other wealthy nations, a new study finds.
"Over the past three decades, midlife mortality in the U.S. has worsened significantly compared to other high-income countries, and for the younger 25- to 44-year-old age-group in 2019 it even surpassed midlife mortality rates for Central and Eastern European countries," said researcher Katarzyna Doniec, a postdoctoral researcher with the Leverhulme Center for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford.
Most of these countries have experienced significant declines in midlife deaths during the last three decades, researchers found.
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