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Annual assessment of health by U.S. state
About 17–18% of the U.S. population is age 65 or older in recent years, rising from roughly 55.8 million in 2020 to about 58–61 million by 2022–2024, and projected to reach roughly 22–23% by 2050 . Co...
About 61.2 million Americans were age 65 or older in the Census Bureau’s Vintage 2024 estimates — roughly 18.0% of the U.S. population (data reported for 2024 and cited across 2025 reporting) . Availa...
U.S. infant deaths numbered about 20,145 in 2023 with an infant mortality rate of 560.2 per 100,000 live births (which CDC presents as 5.602 per 1,000) and was essentially unchanged from 2022 (20,553 ...
Available national sources do not provide a single, definitive ranked list of U.S. states’ overall “child mortality” (broadly ages 0–19 or 1–14) for calendar year 2024 in the search results provided; ...
The evidence does not offer a single, authoritative national statistic labeled “leading cause of death in U.S. schools”; available public-health reporting instead identifies causes of death among scho...
National and international reporting shows a clear, repeated pattern: obesity prevalence is higher among lower-income women than among higher-income women in the United States and many countries, and ...