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Healthy Graphing Technique

3 June, 2009 (03:00) | History, Math, Other science

An interesting graph of life expectancy vs per-capita income, for a bunch of different countries around the world. What is so trés cool is that you can animate it to run it from 1800 to the present. France does a meteoric rise very early on with no change in income, war participants take hits in life expectancy, and basically the whole world does the Time Warp (it’s just a jump to the left) in 1929.

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Comment from Nick
Time: June 3, 2009, 9:01 am

The “loop” that China does in the late 50’s through mid 60’s is impressive, in a truly horrifying way.

Comment from Nick
Time: June 3, 2009, 9:03 am

The sudden lift of nearly the entire world off the baseline during the postwar period is also striking.

Comment from swansont
Time: June 3, 2009, 3:37 pm

Yes, I noticed that postwar lift as well. End of WWII and lots of improvements in medicine around that time.

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