Falling Short of Highest Life Expectancy
How Many Americans Might Have Been Alive in the Twentieth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4120632 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magdalena Muszyńska-Spielauer (0000-0002-1591-6893, Social Science Research Council), Magdalena M Muszyńska, Roland Rau (0000-0003-2131-6269, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 585-603 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population and Development Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00297.x |
| OpenAlex | W2070497230 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
Life expectancy at birth in the United States during the twentieth century was lower than in many other highly developed countries. We investigate how this mortality disadvantage in the last 100 years translates into the number of hypothetical lives lost and their sex and age structure. We estimate the hypothetical US population if it had experienced in each decade since 1900 the mortality level of the country with the then highest life expectancy and compare the results to the actual figures in 2000. By 2000, the number of additional people who could have been alive had the mortality levels in the United States been as low as those in countries with the highest life expectancy was 66 million. This number is distributed equally between males and females. Suboptimal mortality at reproductive ages is crucial for the cumulative effect of potential lives lost, resulting from premature deaths of women who could still become first-time mothers or bear additional children. Out of the 66 million additional persons who could have been alive in 2000, 45 million are attributable to those indirect deaths. Although the differences in the composition of the population by sex and age under the two mortality regimes are minor, the majority of people who might have been alive-54 million-were of working age or younger
Developed country · Disadvantage · Environmental health · Falling (accident) · Geography · Life expectancy · Mortality rate · Political science · Population · Sociology · Years of potential life lost · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Medicine · Gerontology
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |