Extended Data Fig. 2: Aggregated age- and sex-specific U.S. mortality counts in 1983-2021, by standardized race and ethnicity.
From: Orphanhood and caregiver death among children in the United States by all-cause mortality, 2000–2021
Line-list mortality data on US residents were retrieved from the NCHS Vital Statistics portal for each year in 1983-2021 (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/vitalstatsonline.htm) for orphanhood and grandparent caregiver loss estimation. Data were collected from 1983 onwards because the corresponding children who lost a caregiver in 1983 at age 0 were of age 17 in 2000, and so entered our estimation of orphanhood prevalence in 2000. Individuals of other races in 1984-1991 and individuals of more than one race in 2021 were not coded consistently and not included in this study (see Methods). In total, n=93,921,920 death records were included in national orphanhood and grandparent caregiver loss estimation.
