'But increasingly the American mortality anomaly, which is still growing, is explained not by the middle-aged or elderly but by the deaths of children and teenagers. One in 25 American 5-year-olds now won’t live to see 40, a death rate about four times as high as in other wealthy nations.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/opinion/deaths-life-expectancy-guns-children.html