The United States leads in wealth and technology, yet U.S. children (ages 1 to 19) face an 80 percent higher risk of mortality than those in many developed nations, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Chronic illness is also a problem among U.S. children. According to a 2020 Centers for Disease Control report, nearly 13 percent of children ages 2–5 and 21 percent of children ages 6–11 were obese.
