mortality

Shifting Causes of Death

Data Underload / mortality

The most common causes of death changed over the years. They vary across sex and age group. This animation shows the details of these changes.
Weighing the risk of moderate alcohol consumption

Statistics / alcohol, mortality, risk

A research study on mortality and alcohol consumption is making the rounds. Its…
Life expectancy by state, against the US average

Maps / FiveThirtyEight, mortality, small multiples

FiveThirtyEight continues their look at mortality by geography. This graphic by Anna Maria…
Life expectancy if all diseases were magically cured

Infographics / mortality, simulation

Here’s a fun what-if simulation that imagines a world where all natural causes…
Mapping death in America, 1980 to 2014

Maps / FiveThirtyEight, mortality

Nationwide mortality data relies on death certificates, and when cause of death is…
Gun deaths

Infographics / FiveThirtyEight, guns, mortality

As an introduction to a series on gun deaths in America, FiveThirtyEight uses…
U.S. gun deaths rate is an outlier

Statistical Visualization / guns, mortality

If you look at gun death rates for other western countries and adjust…
Rising death rates for white women

Statistical Visualization / mortality, Washington Post

Overall life expectancy continues to increase, but looking at it from the other…
How You Will Die

Data Underload / life expectancy, mortality

So far we’ve seen when you will die and how other people tend to die. Now let’s put the two together to see how and when you will die, given your sex, race, and age.
Causes of Death

Data Underload / mortality

There are many ways to die. Cancer. Infection. Mental. External. This is how different groups of people died over the past 10 years, visualized by age.
How people die in America

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, mortality

Matthew Klein for Bloomberg View explored mortality in America through a slidedeck of…