On a per-person basis, it outspent its peers, paying nearly $12,000 per person via government insurance programs, private insurance coverage, and out-of-pocket costs. The US spent 17.8 percent of its GDP on health care in 2020, nearly twice as much as the average of 9.6 percent among high-income countries. While Americans are dying young from avoidable conditions, they're also spending an exorbitant amount on health care. In fact, it's nearly two times higher than the average of its peers. The US has a higher obesity rate than any other high-income country. America's high obesity rate may play into that discrepancy. Among other high-income countries, no more than a quarter of adults reported having two or more chronic conditions. In 2020, 30.4 percent of US adults said that they had previously been diagnosed with two or more chronic conditions in their life. That tracks with the finding that Americans are more likely than their high-income-country peers to have multiple chronic conditions. The rate of avoidable deaths has been rising in the US since 2015, the analysis notes. In 2020, 336 US deaths per 100,000 people were avoidable, while the average among high-income countries was just 225 deaths per 100,000. The country with the next highest maternal mortality rate was New Zealand with 13.6 per 100,000 live births.īeyond pregnancy, Americans are dying from other conditions that are treatable or preventable at a rate far higher than those seen in all other high-income countries. In 2020, there were 24 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, about 2.5 times higher than the average for high-income countries. The health care system is also failing mothers. In Norway, there were 1.6 deaths per 1,000 live births. In 2020, there were 5.4 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in the US, while the average among high-income countries was 4.1 infant deaths. In a particularly shameful set of statistics, the US continues to have the highest infant and maternal mortality rates of any other high-income country. Relatedly, the US had the highest rate of deaths from COVID-19 in 2020 compared with its high-income peers and was among the lowest of its peers in rates of COVID-19 vaccination.
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Provisional data for 2021 suggests US life expectancy fell nearly a full year further, from 77.0 years to 76.1 years. The next lowest life expectancy among high-income countries was from the UK, which had a 2020 life expectancy at birth of 80.4 years. In 2020, the average life expectancy at birth in the US was 77 years, three years lower than the average for high-income countries. In terms of life expectancy, the US has trailed its peers for years but took a nosedive during the pandemic, while other countries fared better. Overall, the analysis paints a grim picture of how much catching up the US has to do.
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