For decades, the health of U.S. citizens has been getting progressively worse than the health of citizens in other high-income countries, and the United States’ health disparities have widened. As of 2018, the United States ranked 46th in life expectancy worldwide. Its infant mortality rate—the probability that a newborn will not survive to its first birthday—was 65 percent higher than the average infant mortality rate in the European Union. In 71 other countries, female infants are more likely to reach age 65 than those born in the United States.
Social and Economic Policies Can Help Reverse Americans’ Declining Health (Steven Woolf, Center for American Progress)
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