Do not know about the stats, but in the on-line article there is an interactive graph
imaged here in still pics
Would seem that black America is akin to 3rd world
economist.com
How America compares to the world when split by race
Four measures show how black, white and Hispanic Americans lead very different lives
May 21st 2021
Four measures show how black, white and Hispanic Americans lead very different lives
Editor’s note: Twelve months on from the killing of George Floyd, The Economist is publishing a series of articles, films, podcasts, data visualisations and guest contributions on the theme of race in America. To see them visit our hub
AMERICA IS AN outlier among rich countries in many ways. According to several indicators of societal well-being it ranks worse than other well-off places. But national averages can obscure important sub-national differences, especially in countries as big and diverse as the United States. One dividing line is race. The chart above shows how three groups of Americans—white people, African-Americans and Hispanics—compare with the rest of the world on four important measures: life expectancy, infant mortality, murders and imprisonment.
Start with life expectancy—perhaps the simplest and most comprehensive measure of public health. Hispanic and white Americans born today can expect to live for pretty much as long as western Europeans: 82 and 79 years respectively, roughly the same as a newborn German. By contrast, an infant African-American can expect to live for only 75 years—roughly the same span as a baby in Mexico.
Two reasons help to explain this gap. First, too many African-Americans do not survive beyond the first year of their life. The high cost of health care in America means that many parents of African-American newborns cannot afford proper neonatal care. Infant mortality among black Americans is 11 per 1,000 live births—a comparable rate to those of Belize and El Salvador. For white and Hispanic America it is half that rate—on a par with Russia.
Second, many African-American lives are curtailed by violent crime. Although all Americans suffer exceptionally high murder rates compared with people in other advanced economies, black Americans fare the worst. Around two in 100,000 white Americans are murdered every year, roughly six times the average in the rest of the rich world and about the same as Albania. The rate for Hispanics is 3.6, roughly the same as in Mozambique. But an astonishing 16 out of every 100,000 black Americans are murdered each year. That is about the same as in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.
This toll of violence has a detrimental impact on the broader population. One indicator of that is the proportion of Americans who are locked up. America has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with 643 out of every 100,000 of its residents sitting in jail (awaiting trial or sentencing, or serving short sentences) or prison (serving longer terms). White Americans are locked up at roughly the same rate as people in Costa Rica. The incarceration rate among Hispanic Americans, 701 per 100,000 population, is higher than that of El Salvador (which has the world’s second-highest incarceration rate). Meanwhile, a staggering 1,700 out of every 100,000 black Americans are currently doing time. Although the number of African-Americans behind bars has fallen by 21% in ten years, their incarceration rate is still four times higher than Russia's. |
