Death rates among young Americans have surged dramatically, with the mortality rate for adults aged 25 to 44 jumping 71.2% between 2010 and 2021, the largest increase of any age group. This rise is driven by a combination of external causes, such as drug overdose, and early-onset diseases.
Drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for young adults and have multiplied sevenfold since 1999. Suicides have risen more than 40% since 2000. Homicides increased 75.5% between 2014 and 2021 and vehicle accidents rose 43.5% during the same period.
Deaths from diabetes, hypertensive disease and alcoholic liver disease have also spiked sharply. Deaths from alcohol-related mental health disorders more than tripled between 2010 and 2023.
The following are extracts from an article published by Study Finds. You can read the full article HERE.
Death rates for Americans between 25 and 44 years old jumped 71.2% in just eleven years, rising from about 140 deaths per 100,000 people in 2010 to 239 per 100,000 by 2021. No other age group came anywhere close to that surge. Overdoses, suicides, car crashes and chronic diseases appearing at increasingly younger ages are now cutting down people in the prime of their lives.
Steven H. Woolf, a physician and researcher at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, published the analysis in The Milbank Quarterly. He combined data from the United Nations, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and a US mortality database to show how far American life expectancy has fallen behind the rest of the developed world and, increasingly, much of the developing world too.
By 2023, US life expectancy ranked 38th among countries with populations over 1 million, trailing not just Western Europe, Canada, Japan and Australia but also Chile, Costa Rica, Slovenia, Israel, South Korea and several Persian Gulf nations. Sixty countries had a lower risk of a person dying before age 40 than the United States did. That gap didn’t open overnight. It has been widening since the 1990s, and it sped up sharply after 2010.
What’s Driving the Rise in Death Rates Among Young Americans
Drug overdoses top the list. Among adults 25 to 44, the overdose death rate rose sevenfold after 1999, from about 7.7 per 100,000 to more than 54 per 100,000, and surpassed circulatory diseases (such as heart disease and stroke) in 2015 to become the leading cause of death in that age group. Suicide rates for this same group are higher than in any other age bracket and climbed more than 40% between 2000 and 2023. Homicides rose 75.5% between 2014 and 2021, and deaths from car crashes and other transportation accidents rose 43.5% over that same stretch.
What surprised even close followers of these trends is how much of the damage now comes from disease rather than injury. Deaths from diabetes and other metabolic and hormone-related illnesses rose nearly a quarter between 2010 and 2019 among young adults. Deaths tied to liver damage from drinking more than doubled between 2010 and 2023. Deaths from alcohol-related mental health disorders more than tripled in that same window. Even high blood pressure, historically a problem of later adulthood, saw its death rate more than double among 25- to 44-year-olds between 2000 and 2023.
Middle-aged adults, 45 to 64, saw many of the same patterns: rising deaths from drug overdoses, liver damage from drinking and diseases of the brain and nervous system, along with a covid-19 death rate that nearly doubled between 2020 and 2021 even after vaccines became available. Older adults largely avoided these steep increases, though deaths from brain and nerve diseases doubled between 2000 and 2023, and deaths from endocrine disorders and suicide also climbed.
Note from The Exposé: We have to question what “covid-19 death rate” means. If the covid death rate doubled in 2021, after the mass vaccination campaigns began, was it due to covid?
Mass covid vaccination began in the United States on 14 December 2020, when the first doses of vaccine were administered to healthcare workers and long-term care residents. By 19 April 2021, all US states had opened vaccine eligibility to residents aged 16 and over.
President Joe Biden set an immediate goal of administering 100 million vaccine doses within his first 100 days in office and signed an executive order to increase vaccine supplies. This goal was met on 19 March 2021. On n 25 March 2021, he announced he would increase the goal to 200 million within his first 100 days in office. This goal was reached on 21 April 2021. By 4 July 2021, 67% of the United States’ adult population had received at least one dose.
Woolf’s study states:
“COVID-19 mortality among US adults ages 45–64 almost doubled between 2020 and 2021 (rising from 64.51 to 122.66 per 100,000).7 It was not until 2022 and 2023 that COVID-19 mortality at ages 45–64 began to decrease (to 37.14 and 5.16 per 100,000, respectively).”
Does it seem like a “safe and effective” vaccine was given to at least 67% of the American adult population?
Rhoda Wilson, The Expose