Fig. 4: Spatial distribution of US children experiencing orphanhood in 2021.
From: Orphanhood and caregiver death among children in the United States by all-cause mortality, 2000–2021
a, Map of orphanhood incidence rates per 100 children (color) by state and leading cause (symbol). b, Map of orphanhood prevalence rates per 100 children (color) by state and leading cause (symbol). Median estimates are shown (colors), and uncertainty ranges are detailed in Supplementary Table 14. Incidence estimates for 2021 are based on an average of n = 5,071 state- and cause-specific mortality records and n = 71,792 state-specific natality records, and prevalence estimates are based on aggregating incidence estimates among children over the previous 17 years while accounting for aging. Basemaps from Mapbox and OpenStreetMap were generated by ‘Leaflet’ package version 2.2.0 in R under a Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0.
