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Excess Deaths for Black Population

  • Year Avg. No./Day Avg. No./Year
  • 1940 183 55,900
  • 1960 139 50,900
  • 1980 221 80,600
  • 1998 265 96,800
  • TOTAL Premature Deaths, 1940-1999=4,272,000
  • Levine et al. 2001