CellWell record HH-101696
Causes of Excess Deaths in the US Compared With Other High-Income Countries
Jacob Bor; Rafeya V Raquib; David Himmelstein; Steffie Woolhandler; Andrew C Stokes
2026
In plain language
Comparing WHO mortality data across 18 high-income countries from 1999-2022, US excess deaths rose from 346,166 to 905,159 annually, with circulatory and metabolic disease causing 52% of the 2022 gap and drug poisonings 7.48 times higher than peer countries.
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