Today, a young American woman between the ages of 25 and 34 face higher mortality rates than at any other point in more than 50 years. And had the mortality rate remained flat between 2000 and 2021, nearly 40,000 young women would not have died.
~Sara Srygley of PRB
Yep. I made the team triple check the data before we published anything. But it's true.
Part of the story is pandemic deaths, but a lot is rising rates of suicide, homicide, pregnancy-related mortality--and a whole bunch of other things that were going in the wrong direction before 2020.
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