Life Expectancy Trends among U.S. States and Peer Countries, 1980-2020: Estimating the Impact of the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic on Widening Differences

Iliya Gutin
Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

Co-Investigators

  • Ryan Masters, University of Colorado Boulder

Abstract

This project uses restricted access state-level vital statistics data from the National Center for Health Statistics as well as national-level data for 18 high-income peer countries in the Human Mortality Database to help point to similarities in key structural advantages and social policies shared by specific states and peer countries that allowed for the COVID-19 pandemic to be managed more effectively and mitigated avoidable deaths at all ages.

Outcomes

  • Masters RK, Aron LY, Woolf SH. Life Expectancy Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2019-2021: Highly Racialized Deaths in Young and Middle Adulthood in the United States as Compared With Other High-Income Countries. Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Jan 8;193(1):26-35. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwad180. PMID: 37656613; PMCID: PMC10773482.
  • Gutin, Iliya and Ryan K. Masters. 2024. Conceptualizing “Capacity for Population Health”: Spatial Variation in Life Expectancy Trends in the United States and Peer Countries, 1980-2021. MORTAL Conference, Oxford, UK.
  • Gutin, Iliya and Ryan K. Masters. 2023. Illustrating the Racialized Mortality Experiences of the U.S. COVID-19 Pandemic via Quarter-Year Changes in U.S. Life Expectancy, 2019-2022. Population Association of America Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
  • Gutin, Iliya and Ryan K. Masters. 2023. Life Expectancy Trends among U.S. States and Peer Countries, 1980-2020: Estimating the Impact of the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic on Widening Differences. Poster presented at the UMAging Symposium, May 2023, Ann Arbor MI.
  • Gutin, Iliya and Ryan K. Masters. 2022. Illustrating the Racialized Mortality Experiences of the U.S. COVID-19 Pandemic via Quarter-Year Changes in U.S. Life Expectancy, 2019-2022. Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.