Table 3.

Number and percent of excess deaths in the U.S., given the mortality rates in the best performing country, by age and sex, 2016

	Females				Males
		Excess deaths		Best performing country		Excess deaths		Best performing country
	U.S. deaths	N	%		U.S. deaths	N	%
0	10,294	7333	71.2	Finland	12,868	8873	69.0	Japan
1–4	1,789	1010	56.5	Ireland	2256	1607	71.2	Norway
5–9	1,113	730	65.6	Norway	1377	1147	83.3	Ireland
10–14	1,249	785	62.9	Belgium	1764	1096	62.1	Sweden
15–19	3,099	1994	64.3	Italy	7714	6031	78.2	Denmark
20–24	5,462	4093	74.9	Ireland	16,302	12,575	77.1	Spain
25–29	7,543	5836	77.4	Portugal	19,513	14,987	76.8	Spain
30–34	9,817	7256	73.9	Spain	20,747	15,828	76.3	Switzerland
35–39	12,468	8442	67.7	Switzerland	22,810	16,397	71.9	Switzerland
40–44	16,109	9735	60.4	Switzerland	26,407	16,711	63.3	Switzerland
45–49	25,818	14,663	56.8	Norway	39,775	24,100	60.6	Switzerland
50–54	42,619	24,614	57.8	Switzerland	65,327	36,404	55.7	Sweden
55–59	63,498	35,577	56.0	Japan	98,652	51,024	51.7	Switzerland
60–64	80,559	44,325	55.0	Japan	123,751	53,589	43.3	Switzerland
65–69	102,276	53,962	52.8	Japan	144,396	52,596	36.4	Australia
70–74	117,077	60,525	51.7	Japan	148,362	45,099	30.4	Switzerland
75–79	138,035	64,971	47.1	Japan	156,858	39,679	25.3	Switzerland
80–84	174,066	66,478	38.2	Japan	167,988	19,796	11.8	France
85–89	216,423	67,914	31.4	Japan	168,071	9,640	5.7	Israel
90–94	197,445	44,160	22.4	Japan	113,336	19,622	17.3	Israel
95 +	117,253	14,428	12.3	Japan	41,960	3,545	8.4	Israel
Total	1,344,012	538,831	40.1		1,400,234	450,346	32.2

Source Derived from the Human Mortality Database