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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The “loop” that China does in the late 50’s through mid 60’s is impressive, in a truly horrifying way.
The sudden lift of nearly the entire world off the baseline during the postwar period is also striking.
Yes, I noticed that postwar lift as well. End of WWII and lots of improvements in medicine around that time.