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Sociology

The Urban-Rural Divide in Health and Mortality in High-Income Countries

Quick fact

In the United States, the rural mortality penalty has grown so large that millions of rural residents would need to relocate to urban areas to see the same death rates as city dwellers; the gap spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, when rural areas had higher age-adjusted death rates than urban areas for the first time in recent decades.

Why this is interesting

You might picture the countryside as healthier than the smoky city—clean air, open spaces, slower living. But what if the truth is exactly the opposite?