[OC] This is probably the most important development for humans in the recent history — the tremendous growth of life expectancy across all countries 🌐
Sometimes data is beautiful-er when there is less detail. The flag icons are of virtually no help at all – in almost all cases, you can’t tell which line they attach to.
But, the line colours coded to the map regions – that is nice and easy to interpret some patterns.
darthy_parker on
Instead of the flags, which don’t help at all, join the graph line to the list of country names on each end.
Aartvb on
What am I looking at!? The flags and the names are so confusing
hardinho on
That’s why most pension systems are struggling. people get 20-30 years older but we still have a similar retirement age as in 1980.
Unlucky_Hammer on
Russia, Lesotho, and what’s the other nearly flat one?
perldawg on
i am having difficulty figuring out the rhyme and reason to the names on either side
_sansoHm on
More subservient working years to squeeze out of the populace. Great.
TehDragonGuy on
As much as on an individual, short-term level it’s a good thing, on a long-term level, it’s awful. We don’t have the infrastructure to deal with this many old people, who are getting increasingly ill, and we’re putting little effort into changing that.
Minute_Birthday8285 on
Just show the number in a matrix I can’t read this
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It’s good and not good at the same time.
Sometimes data is beautiful-er when there is less detail. The flag icons are of virtually no help at all – in almost all cases, you can’t tell which line they attach to.
But, the line colours coded to the map regions – that is nice and easy to interpret some patterns.
Instead of the flags, which don’t help at all, join the graph line to the list of country names on each end.
What am I looking at!? The flags and the names are so confusing
That’s why most pension systems are struggling. people get 20-30 years older but we still have a similar retirement age as in 1980.
Russia, Lesotho, and what’s the other nearly flat one?
i am having difficulty figuring out the rhyme and reason to the names on either side
More subservient working years to squeeze out of the populace. Great.
As much as on an individual, short-term level it’s a good thing, on a long-term level, it’s awful. We don’t have the infrastructure to deal with this many old people, who are getting increasingly ill, and we’re putting little effort into changing that.
Just show the number in a matrix I can’t read this
Try posting to r/thiscouldhavebeenatable
And now we get to watch it all plummet
At least put the y axis next to the data please
Watch Hans Rodling’s Ted Talks.. Great stuff.
[https://www.ted.com/playlists/474/the_best_hans_rosling_talks_yo](https://www.ted.com/playlists/474/the_best_hans_rosling_talks_yo)
Edit: also available on YouTube if you prefer that platform.
Long living humans…. Not a good thing at all.
Never show mental health data tho
What happened six years ago, in 2020, that made you cut off the data then?
While I like this. I prefer seeing child mortality decline. It’s the root cause and more striking