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Black life expectancy in the United States remains significantly lower than that of White individuals, with a national gap of approximately 9.57 years based on data from 2018–2019 in three large U.S. cities.
That AI response was lengthy, even noting that there are counties in the US with a Black White life expectancy gap of over 20 years (shorter for blacks).
The US is much, much larger and heavily populated than the comparison country. Why would that matter? You’d have to somehow make an apples-to-apples comparison. Match the data on race, sex and lifestyles. If you compare with say people who drive trucks and live a more dangerous job, say lineman. There simply isn’t that much production or infrastructure being built in Sweden compared to the US. The US is a more dangerous place, many more roads, many more cars, etc. Many more people doing a wider diversity of jobs. Also, how many people in the US death stats were born in poor countries and moved here? They’d have less medical attention and food when younger and that might affect their life trajectory here.
There was a short story called, “With folded hands,” where alien robots had taken over everything and eliminated all possibility of accidents, or adventure or fun. People lived long, long miserable lives. The US is still, compared to Sweden, a wild, exciting place. Wild exciting places are inherently more dangerous...and fun. My Dad went back to Sweden after living, working and raising a family here. He said, basically, “what a crappy boring existence they live.”