"Across the board—including this demographic— people are succumbing to fatal illnesses less frequently, so it’s not that. Deaton and Case conclude that low-educated whites aged 45-54 were dying off from an increased suicide rate as well as the slow, grinding suicide that comes from binging on alcohol and painkillers.
In other words, poor, middle-aged whites aren’t dying from disease
—they’re killing themselves."
A study published last Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealed that between the years 1999 and 2014, white Americans aged 45-54 were the only demographic to show a consistently higher mortality rate. American whites of all other age groups experienced a decline in their mortality rate, as did blacks, Hispanics, and all demographics in every other “rich country” on Earth.
The increased mortality rate was almost exclusively confined to whites aged 45-54 who had only a high-school education or less. Including dropouts, this comprises about 40% of all whites from this age group. From 1999-2014, deaths per 100,000 among low-educated whites spiked by 134. While everyone else’s mortality rates were going down, this group’s death rate climbed 22% over the fifteen years documented in this study. According to the Washington Post, the only other large demographic group to experience an increased mortality rate over the past few decades were Russian men after the Soviet Union crumbled.
The study was conducted by a husband-and-wife team of Princeton economists, Angus Deaton and Anne Case. Last month Deaton was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Science. ...
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