US-born and foreign-born life expectancy by race and Hispanic origin before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Interdisciplinary health scholarship has long documented the lower mortality of the foreign-born compared to the US-born populations. In this study, we examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on this migrant mortality advantage in 2020, 2021 and 2022 compared to 2017-2019 and estimate the contributions of the foreign-born population to US life expectancy by race and Hispanic Origin. In 2020, life expectancy declined more among all foreign-born subgroups than their US-born counterparts. The overall foreign-born life expectancy advantage declined by 1.0 year for women by 2.4 years for men and their contribution to US life expectancy declined by 0.13 years for women and 0.30 years for men. In 2021, mortality continued to increase among all US-born subgroups, but it declined among all fore

SUBMITTER: Paglino E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12230979 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature