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by teachingassist 1864 days ago
I suspect this is the same in other countries.

25-44 year olds don't usually die (typical mortality is approx 0.1%), so +25% represents a relatively small number in absolute terms.
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username90 1864 days ago
USA is an outlier on this. You can compare with Italy for example:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105061/coronavirus-deat...

USA has 30 times the deaths among 30-39 year olds but only 5.5 times the population. It isn't just Italy, almost every other country has a distribution similar to Italy.

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gremlinsinc 1864 days ago
Italy has a huge older population and a lot more lax on cigarettes... older smokers = raised chances of death...

USA on the other hand has excess obesity across all metrics (I'm one), so if it hit younger ages harder here it's probably due to obesity epidemic raising death chances.

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antibuddy 1864 days ago
At least in Germany[0] and Sweden I found nothing like that.

[0]: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoel...

edit: I found no English version unfortunately, but at least the Excel file which is easier to work with.

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