In my previous chart comparing the under-5 mortality for Russia and the U.S. many people mentioned the differences in how countries count deaths during births. I created this chart to see if the same pattern holds if we’re looking at deaths between 1 and 5.
sumpfriese on
its a misleading chart… What if us is just better at extending the life of infants by a few months so they fall into the 1-5 year range? What if russia just lets “weak” children die earlier?
Not a fan.
It might make sense to include infant mortality and above 5 year mortality numbers just to make sure thr conclusions drawn from this are solid.
eskimospy212 on
The larger problem in making this conclusion is that Russian deaths are highly likely to be under-reported.
In places like Moscow the stats are probably fine but in the poorer, remote regions that isn’t the case and that’s a problem because that’s probably where these death rates are the highest.
I think the trend line of Russian death rates declining is good but comparing Russia to the US requires at least a relative equivalence in reporting that is not present.
meadbert on
The most common cause of deaths of 1-4 year olds in the US is drowning. I imagine there are far more pools in the US than in Russia because of warmer weather and higher incomes, so I can definitely see this being real.
eilif_myrhe on
No, no, we should just assume your data is wrong, USA is nº1 and all it’s enemies are incompetent liars.
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Data sources:
– [https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-mortality?time=1970..latest&country=USA~RUS](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-mortality?time=1970..latest&country=USA~RUS)
– [https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/infant-mortality?tab=line&time=1970..latest&country=USA~RUS](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/infant-mortality?tab=line&time=1970..latest&country=USA~RUS)
Tools used: Matplotlib
In my previous chart comparing the under-5 mortality for Russia and the U.S. many people mentioned the differences in how countries count deaths during births. I created this chart to see if the same pattern holds if we’re looking at deaths between 1 and 5.
its a misleading chart… What if us is just better at extending the life of infants by a few months so they fall into the 1-5 year range? What if russia just lets “weak” children die earlier?
Not a fan.
It might make sense to include infant mortality and above 5 year mortality numbers just to make sure thr conclusions drawn from this are solid.
The larger problem in making this conclusion is that Russian deaths are highly likely to be under-reported.
In places like Moscow the stats are probably fine but in the poorer, remote regions that isn’t the case and that’s a problem because that’s probably where these death rates are the highest.
I think the trend line of Russian death rates declining is good but comparing Russia to the US requires at least a relative equivalence in reporting that is not present.
The most common cause of deaths of 1-4 year olds in the US is drowning. I imagine there are far more pools in the US than in Russia because of warmer weather and higher incomes, so I can definitely see this being real.
No, no, we should just assume your data is wrong, USA is nº1 and all it’s enemies are incompetent liars.