Black Americans faced a staggering 1.6million excess deaths over the last two decades compared to White people, a new study has found.
A study published in the medical journal JAMA found the Black population in the US experienced more than 1.63 million excess deaths compared to the White population from 1999 to 2020.
According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, excess deaths are normally defined as the "difference between the observed numbers of deaths in specific time periods and expected numbers of deaths in the same time periods."
